LOST PROPELLER

Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 10

LOST PROPELLER

LIfiOEHBANK ADRIFT IK BIGHT SHIPPING CONVERGING OH DISTRESSED STEAMER CONTACT EXPECTED BEFORE NOON IT eh United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 22. Tlie Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department received this morning from the superintendent of Awarua Radio, particulars in reference to signals from the distressed steamer Lindenbank. At 4.50 a.m. the Lindenhank wirelessed her position off the Carpenter Pocks, ,082 deg, 8J miles, her propeller lost, and requiring assistance.

At 5.16 a.m. the Maloja repeated the message, adding: Our distance from the Lmdcnbank is '560 miles. At 5.23 the Lindenbank sent out an SOS with the request' for immediate assistance.

At 5.35 Adelaide radio advised the Lindenbank that the steamer Iron Monarch was in. latitude 34.58 south, longitude 138.21 east. At 6.37 the steamer British Strength called the Lindenbank and gave her position as at 38.21 south, 138.52’ east, and indicated that she was hound for Melbourne at a speed of knots. At 5.39 the Ascanius advised that she was in position 35.29 South, 137.25 east.

At 5.45 a.m. the British Strength advised Adelaide radio that she was 75 miles south-west of the Lindenbank, and at 5.50 the British Strength called the Lindenbank and advised >. “We are steering for your position, and expect to arrive at. 11 a.m. ship’s time.” This was acknowledged by the Lindenbank at 6.20 a.m.

Adelaide radio is handling the traffic with the Linlenhank, who stated that ,she was experiencing strong W.S.W. winds and'a heavy, swell. '

With approach of daylight, the Lindenbank’s signals, which hitherto had been of good strength, faded out.

[The Lindenbank belongs to the Bank line of steamers, and was built by Workman, Clark (1928) Ltd., Belfast, in 1930 She is of 4,628 tons gross, and is 421.8 feet in length, with a beam of 56.8 feet and .a depth of 26.7 feet. The vessel nearest her, , the British Strength, owned by the British Tanker Company, is 6.549 tons gross.. She was built by Palmer’s Ltd., of Newcastle, in 1931, and is 441.2 feet long, her beam is 59.7 feet, and depth 33 feet. The position given would place the distressed steamer somewhere in the Gulf of St. Vincent, on the South Australian coast.] ■