MISSING TRAINING SHIP

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11828, 9 January 1933, Page 2

MISSING TRAINING SHIP

ANOTHER SEARCH FOR THE KOBENHAYEN, A

PROMOTED BY SORROWING

DANISH FAMILIES

MELBOURNE. Jau-t

It is tour yoal'S almost to a day since the five-masted training ship Kobcnhaven lost contact with the shipping world and vanished into silence of the seas between Buenos Aires and Adelaide. Search after search was made for the Danish barque and her youthful crew. on t>s~in—• dividuals.

Long alter Lloyd’s posted the vessel as dost at sea' investigation went on.

Our company spent £'20.000 in fitting out whalers to scout the seas for tell- • tale wreckage. Then the search languished for lack of funds.

In a score of Danish seaports-there are sorrowing mothers and father? who must learn the details of thu' mystery and tragedy. To raise fund;

for a revived search, the parents have collected information relating to the lvobenliaven and published a booh under the editorship of a Danish journalist. Jens Ervo. One of tile first copies to reach Australia is in the possession of the chief officer of the motor ship Tongkuig.

When the 'esse] arrived in Melbourne yesterday there was considerable speculation as to the fate of the lvobenliuyen. She left Buenos Aires on, December. 14, 1928 under the command of. Captain Anderson to load wheat at Adelaide. On the 21st she established wireless communication avitU the Norwegian steamer "William Blunter and reported her position, agreeing to communicate next day: But nothing. more eam|j through. The largest sailing ship i n the world, manned by mere boys, has never been’ heard of since. Humour has it that she capsized, but sadormen are firm in the' belief r that she rammed an ice-berg -. and brought tons of ice crashing to her decks. The project of the Danish parents to be carried out in two small sailinK w ships is almost a forlorn hope. -The K sea seldom gives up its dead. -