EARTHQUAKE AT SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 23 February 1917, Page 6

EARTHQUAKE AT SEA.

S2fAPS SHIP'S PBOPELLOK. A submarine earthquake which lasted for 48 seconds and was so evident that it snapped a blade off the ship's propellor, was reported by Captain van "Wyck Jurriasse, of the Dutch liner Tjikembang, r.nd his arrival at San Francisco from Batavia. The steamer was out one day from Ngasaki, steaming at 14 knots through a smooth sea when a shock was felt as if the liner had struck a submerged rock. Then the shaking started. The ship was shaken, said the skipper, like a rat in the teeth of a terrier, shaken until all on board feared she would fly to pieces. Panic seized the Oriental crew and the steerage passengers and the cabin passengers made frantic efforts to launch' a lifeboat. Calm was restored when the vibrations ceased, but the Tjikembang had to limp all the way to Hongkong, where she was dry-docked and another propellor shipped.