SWEDISH VESSEL MISSING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 46, 31 March 1914, Page 5

SWEDISH VESSEL MISSING.

The Swedish-owned ore-carrying steamer Malmberget has been posted as missing, this being the first vessel of that nationality to be thus posted since the steamer Linnia was lost in 1005, while on a voyage from Wales to London. Particular interest attache? to the Malmberget on account of the fact that she was in wireless commu-

nvcation the day after leaving Narvick, on November 27, bound for Rotterdam, -and beyond the finding of wreckage and one of the vessel's boats, no tidings have been received fromvessel or crew to shed any light on the disaster. Heavy gales set in soon after the Malmberget left her Norwegian port, and it is surmised that she was wrecked on one of the numerous islets on the coast soon after leaving Owned by Eederiaktiebolaget LuleaOfoten (P. A. Welin, manager), of the Malmberget was launched just about a year ago at Heb-burn-on-Tyne. She represented a special type of ore-carrying steamer. The vessel was about 440 ft long, and was the fourth ship of that class to be constructed by the builders, Messrs Hawthorne, Leslie, and Co., for the Stockholm firm. Built to the highest class of the British Corporation, the. steamer had a dead-weight capacity of over 11,000 tons. She was constructed with four double and four single ore pockets, or holds, on the self-discharging principle; and was, in regard to design, about the last word in orecarrying ships. The propelling machinery,, consisting of triple-expansion engines, of 402 ii.h.p., was placed aft. I On deck she had eight hydraulic cranes for handling the ore. The massing vessel, which sailed under the command of a shipmaster named Strom, had Stockholm as her port of registry.