RECORD TOW

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 September 1925, Page 5

RECORD TOW

OF 13,000 MILES

CIRTPPLED STEAMER’S TRIP

SUCCESSFULLY ACCOMPLISHED

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION'-COPYRIGHT

(Received Sep. 4, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sep. 3. Tugs, with the disabled steamer City of Singapore in tow, have arrived at Rotterdam. —A. and N.Z. Assn. [A world’s record tow has been completed bv the safe arrival of the tugs, their crippled charge having travelled a distance of 13,000 miles. The City of Singapore, With a cargo of petroleum, caught fire at Port Adelaide last year. She was badly damaged by the flames, and was blown practically in two by the explosion. She was pur chased by Mr W. J. Russell, marine architect and surveyor, of London, and he engaged the two Dutch tugs, which had just completed towing a floating clock to Sabang, Singapore, to take the patched-up vessel to Europe. She took a round-about course to Fremantle, then to Diego Garcia Island, in the Chapos Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean, and then to the Somaliland coast, through the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean, and thence on to its destination.]