FEAT OF SEAMANSHIP
LINER GEORGIC SAVED TOW OF 2775 MILES (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 6. The White Star liner Georgic (28,000 tons) participated in what is believed to be a record tow for a derelict ship of such size—277s miles from Port Sudan to Karachi. She was attacked by enemy planes at Suez in July, 1941, and set on fire. She went ashore and burned for two days. She was refloated with a cement box against her bomb-damaged hull, and in December left under tow with another ship as steerer. The towing wires' parted in heavy weather, and the Georgic developed a list of lOdeg. The ships put into Port Sudan, where they lay for six weeks until they left for Karachi, towed by the 6000-ton vessel Recorder. The Georgic in December, 1942, sailed under her own power to Bombay for dry docking and replating. , When the German bombers hit and set fire to the Georgic Berlin claimed that she was sunk with thousands of troops on board. Actually only one man was killed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25660, 7 October 1944, Page 7
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