GREAT BATTLE WITH SEA
SHIP TOWED THOUSAND MILES
WEEK'S SUCCESSION OF STORMS
RUDDER LOST IN MID-ATLANTIC.
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.
London, Dec. 18.
After a thrilling battle with the gales three Dutch tugs have brought the disabled liner Jamaica Settler to Falmouth. Terrific seas, with swells like tidal waves, smashed the steamer’s rudder in mid-Atlantic. She drifted at the mercy of the storm for a week, after which a tug picked up her SOS and took the liner in tow. The hawsers parted and the tug was driven off after she had gone 150 miles. A second tug arrived after a fortnight’s voyage, but the hawsers were snapped by successive hurricanes. A third tug was dispatched and the Jamaica Settler was towed 1000 miles.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1929, Page 13
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