SAILING SHIP SUNK
C. B. PEDERSEN IN COLLISION.
[by CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.]
(Recd. April 27, 8 a.m.) GOTHENBURG, April 26.
Captain Alexander Pedersen, owner, received information that the C. B. Pedersen foundered after a collision with an unnamed ship off the Azores. The crew of 32 were saved.
The last report of the position the owner received was on April 23, when the ship was 600 sea miles south-west of the Azores, meeting with adverse winds.
It is reported that the C. B. Pedersen collided with the Glasgow steamer, Chagres.
The C. B. Pedersen was a four-mast-ed steel barque of 2142 tons gross, built in 1891 by the Continental Lead and Iron Co., Ltd., in Pertusola. First registered as the J. H. Dahlstrom. she became, in turn, the Svecia, the Elsa Olanda, the Ferm, the Emannuele Accame, and finally the C. B. Pedersen, when she came into the hands of her last owners, of whom C. B. Pedersen, was the principal. She was a Swedish vessel engaged in the wheat trade from South Australia.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1937, Page 8
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