SHIP IN DISTRESS
MID-ATLANTIC DRAMA ANOTHER VESSEL STANDS BY NEW YORK, Fob. 1 Ten hours after the American freighter Meanticut, leaking badly and rolling helplessly in a great swell in mid-Atlantic, sent out an S.O.S. call the Holland-American freighter Edam reported that she was standing by, but could not attempt to take off the crew before daylight to-day. Previously, the captain of the Meanticut radioed that he was considering abandoning the ship, the position of which he reported as 250 miles northwest of the Azores in the regular lane between Gulf ports and the English Channel.
The Meanticut is a vessel of 6061 gross tons. She was built in 1921 by the Pacific Coast Steam Boat Company, of California, and is owned by the Ripley Steamship Company. Her port of registry is Houston, Texas.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22643, 3 February 1937, Page 13
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