UNLUCKY FRIDAY
SAILORS’ SUPERSTITION
MISFORTUNES OE OIL TANKER
LONDON, February 18
The largo oil tanker Varand, constructed by Armstrong-Whitworth’s last year, returning from her maiden voyage to New Orleans loaded with 7,400 tons of benzine, is aground at the mouth of the Mersey. it is feared that she will break up, releasing her petrol, which will be carried up to Liverpool on a rising tide. The disaster is the climax of three weeks’ buffeting, when she lost her propeller after striking a submerged wreck in tho Atlantic. S.O.S. signals brought tho assistance of a powerful tug, and she was under tow when a fierce squall broke the tow rope. She then drifted helplessly. Her crew point oyt that they left New Orleans on a Friday. They encountered tho first gale on a Friday, struck the wreckage on a Friday; on two subsequent Fridays they saved the ship by tho barest margin, and finally grounded in sight of homo on a Friday.
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Evening Star, Issue 19795, 20 February 1928, Page 4
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161UNLUCKY FRIDAY Evening Star, Issue 19795, 20 February 1928, Page 4
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