MOTOR-SHIP'S MISHAP
HOLMGLEN REACHES PORT DELAYED BY BAD WEATHER [by TELEGRAPH—PRESS association] WELLINGTON, Monday The motor-ship Holmglen, the engines of which broke down at sen on Friday morning and whose distress signals were responded to by the Achilles, reached Wellington to-day from Qneen Charlotto Sound. The master, Captain McArthur, said the mishap was due to a compressor valve blowing out. The ship left the Queen Charlotte Sound anchorage, to which she had been escorted by an Australian destroyer, on Saturday afternoon but encountered a strong southerly wind and a heavy sea and returned to the anchorage. She remained there until early this morning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22695, 6 April 1937, Page 10
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