SHIP IN DISTRESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1937, Page 7

SHIP IN DISTRESS

BROKEN RUDDER REPAIRED.

[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]

■ BRISBANE, February 15. A message picked up from, the steamer Shousing,; which. earlier sent out SOS calls and was believed to be drifting helplesslyAvith a broken rudder in a cyclone 700. or .800 miles east of Cairn, says that temporary repairs have been effected to a broken rudder cable. The vessel is now heading for the Queensland coast. Much water has bee’i shipped. The wireless room is flooded, and the ship’s . . wireless range is therefore limited; ' A later message states ' that the China Exporter has wirelessed to say that she was 550 miles from the Shousing at noon to-day and was not in direct communication with the disabled vessel.

UNION CO.’S CLAIM.

MELBOURNE, February 15.

The Union Steam Ship Company of New' Zealand,’Ow'nefs of the Kakariki, which sank after a collision off the Australian coast with the steamer Caradale, to-day issued a High Court writ claiming from the owners of the Chradale £50,000 iff damages alleged to have been caused in the collision. The Caradale was arrested to-day when, under the authority df'the High Court, a sheriff’s officer nailed the w’rlt to her mast.