THE STEAMER ORUNGAL
GEAR WHEEL STRIPPED. LENGTHY IDLENESS RESULTS. (United Press Association.) • (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, December 4. The steamer Orungal will be laid up for three months until a new main gear wheel for the turbines arrives from England. The gear wheel was stripped. It is the first time such a mishap has occurred in Australia. There was no panic among the passengers when the breakdown occurred.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20892, 5 December 1929, Page 9
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