STEAMER DISABLED.
SALVAGE FEAT IN ATLANTIC. GOOD WORK DURING STORM. A disabled German steamer, which had lost a propeller, was salvaged during a storm off tho American coast and towed to Norfolk, \ irginia, by the EllermanBucknall steamer City of Batavia, which berthed at Auckland from New York yesterday morning. The feat reflects great credit on the seamanship and skill of Captain H. E. Nancollas, the master of the City of Batavia. '1 he day after leaving New York for New Zealand the wireless operator on board tho City of Batavia picked up S.O.S, signals from the German steamer Adolph Leonhardt, which asked for assistance, as she had lost her propeller in a storm the previous day. The disabled steamer was soon located, but the high seas prevented the launching of a boat, and the task of connecting the two steamers was a most difficult one. Eventually a line was thrown on to the crippled vessel, and soon the City of Batavia had the German steamer in tow. A course was set for Norfolk, Virginia, about 250 miles away. Under improved weather conditions the two steamers progressed at about three and a-half knots an hour, and Norfolk was reached safely. The City of Batavia took in bunker coal and then resumed lyr voyage to New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19307, 21 April 1926, Page 15
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