GERMAN SHIP BELIEVED STRANDED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1938, Page 8

GERMAN SHIP BELIEVED STRANDED.

ON ANTIPODES OR BOUNTY ISLANDS.

(By Telegraph —Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Last Night, The possibility that the crew of the missing Hamburg-Amerika sailing ship Admiral Karpfanger are stranded on either the Antipodes or the Bounty Islandjfr-abcut 400 miles south-east of SJ ? g investigated. The Sydney agents of the line are reported to be making inquiries about prospects of a vessel being sent to those islands from either Wellington or Bluff to rescue the men, if they are there. No information has been received in Tnver--3 cargill about the source of the Sydney I agents’ information, but further advice -■ is expected at any moment. The first news that anything was . amiss came from Hamburg on June 24, ■ a Press Association message stating that anxiety was felt for the Admiral Karpfanger, which was carrying a cargo of wheat from Port Germain (South Australia). It was then stated that the vessel was last reported at Cape Horn on March 1. Ten days ago it was announced that officials of the Hamburg-Amerika lino had expressed confidence that the vessel was safe. It was stated that sailors wore often forced by the wind to keep ) from the steamer tracks. It might have been impossible to approach land to en able communication to be made. Not until the ship was at sea for 180 days would real anxiety be felt. Bounty Islands are a group of 13 islands which belong to New Zealand ‘and He to the north of the Antipodes. They arc uninhabited. The Antipode*, which form part of the territory of New Zealand, are merely detached rocky islands about five miles in length from north to south, and no-one lives there. The ship Spirit of the Dawn, of Liverpool, was wrecked at the Antipodes on September 4, 1803. Eighty-seven days later 11 survivors were rescued by the steamer Hinemoa and brought to Dunedin. The route of vessels going round Cape Horn from Australia lies close to these islands, which are a long way west of Capo Horn, the point the missing vessel is believed to have reached.