MISSING KOBENHAVN.
EX-SKIPPER’S THEOIIIES. BELIEVES EXPLOSION OCCURRED (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 9.45 a.m. to-day. CAPETOWN, July IS. The chief officer of the Mexico, the search vessel, who was previously skipper of the missing Kohenhavn, considers that when the Kohenhavn drifted and passed Tristan da Cimha an explosion had occurred in the engine-room, situated abaft, blowing out the stern post. The islanders watched the vessel drifting for three hours, and it is inexplicable why they failed to put out. He presumed that it was the first time they had seen a sailer. Mr Christensen accepts the theory that the Kohenhavn sank near Tristan da Cunha, where the sea. is very deep. Ho believes the cadets were taken off.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 19 July 1929, Page 9
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124MISSING KOBENHAVN. Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 19 July 1929, Page 9
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