LARGE OILTANKER GROUNDS IN MERSEY; LIVERPOOL MENACED
CREW AVER FRIDAYS WERE UNLUCKY DAYS [By Electric Cable-Copyright] (Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Eoeeivcd Sunday, 5.5 p.in.) LONDON, Feb. IS. The largo oil tanker Varand, constructed by Armstrong, Whitworth’s last year, returning from her maiden voyage to New Orleans, loaded with 7400 tons of benzine, is aground at tho mouth of the Mersey, and it is feared she will break up releasing the petrol which will bo carried up to Liverpool on tho rising tide. The disaster is the climax of three weeks’ buffeting. She lost her propeller and rudder after striking a submerged wreck in the Atlantic. An S.O.S. -brought the assistance of a powerful tug and she was under tow when a fierce squall broke the tow rope. She then drifted helplessly. The crow point out they left New Orleans on a Friday. They encountered tho first gale on a Friday, They struck tho wreckage on a Friday, On two subsequent Fridays they saved the ship by the barest margin. And finally they grounded in sight of homo on a Friday.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6537, 20 February 1928, Page 7
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181LARGE OILTANKER GROUNDS IN MERSEY; LIVERPOOL MENACED Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6537, 20 February 1928, Page 7
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