SHIP OF PARTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 30, 22 January 1929, Page 8

SHIP OF PARTS

FLORIDA HURRICANE. The steamer Kilcredane. which arrived at Auckland at the end of last week from Casablanca, was once fitted up as an armed cruiser in the Russian volunteer fleet. In addition to troops, she carried 1000 passengers, and ran from Odessa in the Black Sea to Vladivostok and Petrograd. In those days she was known as the Mogifeff, and was beautifully appointed. The Russian revolution ended her days as an armed auxiliary passenger cruiser, and about six years ago she was purchased by the Limerick Steamship Company and turned into a tramp steamer, to circle the waters of the globe with cargoes of phosphates, iron ore, and the like. , Captain F. Kirk, who has hadcommand of the Kilcredane ever since she became a tramp, has seen some exciting times on the vessel. On 15th September last year, she ran into a terrible hurricane in the Florida Straits. One boat was washed overboard, and three others were stove in. The bridge was smashed and washed away by the waves which dashed over her, and everything movable went overboard into the mountainous seas.