LARGE OIL TANKER AGROUND
A SERIES OF MISFORTUNES. SAILORS’ SUPERSTITION REGARDING FRIDAY. (Pre*» Association—Ht Telegraph-Copyright.) LONDON, February 18. (Received Feb. 19, at 5.5 p.m.) The large oil tanker Varaml, constructed by Armstrong-Whitwortb's lust year, returning from her maiden voyage tc New Orleans, loaded with 7400 tons oc benzine, is aground at the mouth of the Mersey. It is feared she will wreak up, releasing her petrol, which w.’ll _be carried up to Liverpool on a rising tide. The disaster is the climax of three weeks’ buffeting, when she lost her propeller after striking a submerged wreck tire Atlantic. S.O.S, signals brought the assistance of a powerful tug, and she was under tow when a fierce squall brok? the tow> rope. She then drifted helplessly. Tier crew point out that they left New Orleans on a Friday. They encountered the first gale on a Friday, struck the w-eekage on a Friday, uii tw T o /.übseqnent Fridays they saved the ship by the barest margin, and f.nally grounded in sight of home on a Friday.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20337, 20 February 1928, Page 9
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