SECRET OF THE SEA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20991, 2 April 1930, Page 9

SECRET OF THE SEA

MISSING TRAINING SHIP. A LAY PREACHER’S STORY. (United Frees Association.) {By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, March 31. (Received April 1, at 8 p.m.) • “ I am confident that it was the Kobenhavn” said Mr Philip Lindsay, a lay preacher, upon his return from Tristan Da Cimha, when referring to a mystery ship which was sighted on June 21, 1929. ‘‘She was five-masted, with, the mainmast broken and a broad white band around the hull. She was heading directly for the heach, from which we were watching, but when seven and a-half miles away she seemed to drift further eastwards. The sea was too rough to use the island canvas boat. We saw no sign of life. The ship was 'carrying only one jib, and her stern was low in the water, being immersed to the white band. We last saw the Kobenhavn svithin a quarter of a mile of the shore. Several things were afterwards washed up, but no bodies, TBey must have all been dead before the ship approached Tristan.” The Kobenbavn was the only fivemasted barque in the world. The -Janish ship Kobenhavn, with a number of cadets on board, left Buenos Aires in December, 1928, and she has not since been reported.