FREIGHTER SAVED FROM DANGEROUS POSITION
AUTOLYCUS DISABLED OUTSIDE j TORT PHILLIP ; SEVEN HOURS OF ANXIETY j I United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy rigoti (Received 18th November, 11.40 a.m. / MELBOURNE, This Day. Roiling in heavy seas with the engine disabled, the steamer Autolycus was; saved from a dangerous anchorage two 1 miles outside Port Phillip heads last i night by two tugs which raced to the j ship from Melbourne in response to on | urgent wireless message for assistance. ! The freighter, with two anchors holding the rocky bottom, pitched in a heavy swell for more than seven hours. If the cables had parted, she would have been dashed on the reefs off Point Lonsdale. It was nearly three hours before a tug was able to secure a line from the Autolycus and a further 2' hours elapsed before the lugs swung the ship round against the wind and towed her into port The pilot had just been taken aboard the Autolycus when the engines broke lown.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 18 November 1937, Page 9
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