BATTLE WITH GALES
A STEAMER DISABLED. SAFELY TOWED TO PORT. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 18. After a thrilling battle with the gales three Dutch tugs brought the disabled liner Jamaica Settler to Falmouth. A terrific sea smashed the steamer’s rudder in mid-Atlantic, and she drifted at the mercy of the storm for a week, after which n tug picked up an S.O.S. and took the liner in tow. The hawsers parted after they had gone 150 miles, and the tug was driven off. A second tug arrived after a fortnight’s voyage, but the hawsers were snapped by successive hurricanes, and a third tug was despatched and towed the Jamaica Settler 1000 miles.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20905, 20 December 1929, Page 11
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