FATE OF SHIP KOBENHAVN
THEORY THAT IT WAS SUNK. -- t By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Capetown, July 18. The chief officer of the Mexico, w r ho was previously skipper of the Kobenhavn, considers that when the KobenTiavn drifted past Tristan de Cunha an explosion had occurred in the engineroom, situated abaft, blowing out the stern post. The islanders watched the vessel drifting for three hours. It was inexplicable why they failed to put out. He presumed it was the first time they had seen a sailer.
Christensen accepts the theory that the Kobenhavn sank near Tristan, where the sea is very deep. He believes the cadets were taken off.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1929, Page 22
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