STORMY VOYAGE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 222, 18 April 1933, Page 5

STORMY VOYAGE

| Ship Breaks Tail-shaft in I Tempestuous Seas j ATTEMPT TO RENDER AS- ! SISTANCE TO ANOTHER VESSEL IN DISTRESS Press Association. —Copyright, 'Received To-day, 10.55 a.in. ! Brisbane. To-duj'.- Ofli.ccrsv of the j steamer City of Delhi which berthed | at Brisbane, tell ;i story of ;i temposi tv.ous voyage from Newcastle en Tyne | to Philadelphia. When ouly a day out llie ship eni countered a gale and during the j height thereof u wireless message was received from the steamer Exeter City .'stating that the captain and lwo men I had .been lost when the bridge was I swept overboard and calling for as- ! sistance.

Wliile the City of Delhi was racing for assistance the tailshal't broke and for two days the vessel drifted in the gale.

Eventually (he City of Lille took her in tow, but the rope broke and the storm increasing in fury made it impossible for the tow to be resumed for another two days. Eventually the City of Delhi readied Boston Harbour. The Exeter City foundered after the crew had been rescued by the steamer American Merchant.