HELPLESS STEAMER
ADRIFT IN ATLANTIC.
PROPELLOR CARRIED AWAY. LONG TOW TO ABERDEEN. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph . . Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 2 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Jan. 13. The Norwegian steamer Oleaar Void, which is not fitted with wireless, was .towed 350 miles to Aberdeen after drifting helplessly in the Atlantic for twenty-nine days. Terrific storms carried away the propellor. The crew were reduced to living on the wheat cargo. The water supply was exhausted. They sent up all their rockets, which ueie ;not observed by passing ships until the {last one was seen by a trawler.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1929, Page 9
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98HELPLESS STEAMER Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1929, Page 9
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