SEA MYSTERY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23033, 10 May 1938, Page 11

SEA MYSTERY

VANISHED STEAMER SINKING PRESUMED ATLANTIC VOYAGE TWO MONTHS' SILENCE HOPE NOW ABANDONED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 0, 0.50 p.m.) LONDON, May 0 The relatives of the 38 members of the crew of the London steamer Anglo-Australian have been informed that hope has been abandoned for the vessel, which is presumed Jo have sunk in the Atlantic* The steamer left Cardiff on March 8 for Vancouver and a message announced that she passed the Azores on March 14. There has been no news since. The abandonment of hope for the Anglo-Australian ends more than a month of anxiety for the ship both in London and Vancouver. Cabled advice from London received in Vancouver on April 7 stated that the whereabouts of the freighter was causing increasing concern in shipping circles. She passed Fayal, in the Azores, on March 14 and had been scheduled to reach the Panama Canal on her way to Vancouver, about March 29. The Anglo-Australian, of 5456 tons gross, was built at Sunderland in 1927 for Nitrate Producers' Steam Ship Company. She made her maiden voyage to Australia with coal from Cardiff but, although other ships of her company have visited Auckland, the lost steamer did not pay a call at the port. Her construction was on the shelter-deck principle, and her deadweight capacity was 10,000 tons on a moderate draught.