EXPEDITION SHIP
BROKEN RUDDER STOCK An examination of the Antarctic expedition ship Wyatt Earp shows that fortune was on the side of Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth when the vessel was crushed in the ice or she would have left her bones in the frozen wastes. Since the vessel has been in dry dock at Port Chalmers it has been found that the rudder stock was fractured in two places where it passed upward through the trunkway, from the rudder head to the quadrant. At first the rudder seemed to he but little out of alignment. The defects were so serious, however, that the rudder stock snapped off in being unshipped. But for the tight-fitting trunkway on which it worked it would have broken before. A new stock is being fitted.
Had the stock broken in the there would have been nothing to prevent the rudder from swinging round and stripping the propeller blades.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18335, 1 March 1934, Page 6
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152EXPEDITION SHIP Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18335, 1 March 1934, Page 6
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