IN GRAVE DANGER
INTER-STATE FREIGHTER MUNGANA DRIFTING TOWARDS ROCKS CREW OF FORTY-SEVEN (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 22nd June, 11.50 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. With her engine • thrust carried away and the prooellor shaft bent, the inter-state freighter Mungana, with a crew of forty-seven, is disabled off Margaret Brock Reef, near Cape Jaffa, about 200 miles from Port Adelaide, A message received at Adelaide at 12.24 this morning from tire captain ->f the Mungana read: “Three miles off Margaret Brock Reef, drifting north-north-east,. Position grave.” The liner Nestor answered the call for help and at an early hour in the morning was endeavouring to get a line aboard the Mungana, but owing to heavy seas had not been successful. The Orungal is also going to the Mungana’s assistance. The latest advice, received at 2.5 this morning, stated that the Mungana was drifting north-north-east at two miles an hour with both anchors and cables gone. The ship is about two miles off the rocks.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 22 June 1936, Page 5
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165IN GRAVE DANGER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 22 June 1936, Page 5
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