LINER KILLS WHALE
STRUCK BY PROPELLER INCIDENT IN TASMAN (Pel Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. There was excitement aboard the Oiient liner Orford, which arrived this morning, when the big ship struck and killed a whale in the Tasman 210 miles off the Australian coast on Tuesday morning, the day after leav.ng Brisbane. The officers had earlier seen two whales at a distance. A sudden tremor was felt throughout the afterpart of the ship and the engine-room, where it was realised that something had been struck by the port propeller. Passengers and members of the crew gazing over the stern saw blood in the churned-up sea and a huge torn carcase drifting away. It is thought that the whale probably came to the surface after a dive and collided with the propeller. Two years ago in the Gulf of Aden a rising sea monster fouled tht Orford's bows and was killed, the ship having to go astern to free herself from the carcase.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 7
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