AIRCRAFT CARRIER HOLED BY ICE OFF GREENLAND
(Rec. 10 .a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 25. Ice knocked a hole, ten inches by six inches, in the stem of the bows of the 13,190-ton aircraft carrier. Vengeance, when the ship was undergoing a test off the coast of Greenland to see how the warship would stand up to ice. The Vengeance nosed her way at two knots through an ice barrier comprising blocks of ice up to 40 feet across and eight to 20 feet deep, but on entering the second line of ice she was holed at the watermark. Within ten minutes .250 tons of water had flooded the forecastle tank. Another tank astern was deliberately flooded to raise the hole out of the water and the Vengeance at once returned to the open sea.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1949, Page 5
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