STEAMER IN DISTRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20758, 29 December 1930, Page 10

STEAMER IN DISTRESS.

REPORTS BY WIRELESS. VESSEL NEAR TASMANIA. [BY TELEGEAFH. —PfIESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Sunday. The secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department has received the following wireless message, timed 3.20 p.m.:— " S.S. Cabarita, lattitude 40deg., llmin. south, longitude 149deg. 16£min. east, sent alarm signal and advised boiler mishap and requested ships in vicinity to stand by. Boilers burst. Talune hastening to assistance and expects to arrive at 9 p.m. Talune advised Hobart that nothing heard of Cabarita since 5.21 p.m. New Zealand time."

The following advice Las been received from the radio station at Awarua in reference to the Cabarita: —"The following message was sent from the Talune to the Hobart radio station at 10.44 p.m. on December 27: 'Just passed Cabnrita and O.K.' "

1 lie position of the Cabarita as given in the message is in the entrance to Bass Strait and about 100 miles from the north-east point of Tasmania. The Cabarita is a British steamer of 4364 tons gross. She is owned by the AustralChina Navigation Company, Limited, and registered at Hongkong. She was built at Glasgow in 1915 and was formerly named . the Chronos. She left Nauru Island on December 1 with phosphate for Australian ports.