MISSING SAILING SHIP

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21086, 12 July 1938, Page 6

MISSING SAILING SHIP

LAST REPORTED OFF CAPE HORN

SEARCH MAY BE MADE Ol’ ISLANDS

By Telegraph—Press Association INVERCARGILL, July 11. I A possibility that the crew of the I missing Hamburg-Amerika sailing I ship, Admiral Karpf anger, are stranded on either the Antipodes or Bounty Islands about 400 miles south-east of Bluff is being investigated. The Sydney agents of the line are reported to be making inquiries about prospects of a vessel being sent to those islands from either Wellington or Bluff to rescue the men if they are there. No information has been received in Invercargill about the source of the Sydney agents’ information, but further advice is expected at any moment. The first news that anything was amiss came from Hamburg on June 24. a Press Association message stating that anxiety was felt for the Admiral Karpfanger, which was carrying a cargo of wheat from Port Germain (South Australia). It was then stated that was she was last reported at Cape Horn on March 1. Ten days ago it was. announced that officials of the Ham-burg-Amerika Line had expressed confidence that the vessel was safe. It was stated that sailing ships were often forced by the wind to keep from the steamer tracks. It might have been impossible to approach land to enable communication to be made. Not until the ship was at sea for 180 days would real anxiety be felt. The Bounty Islands are a group of 13 islands which belong to New Zealand and lie to the north of the Antipodes. They are uninhabited. The Antipodes form part of the territoryof New Zealand. They are merely detached rocky islands about five miles in length from north to south and no one lives there. The ship Spirit of the

Dawn, of Liverpool, was wrecked at the Antipodes on September 4, 1893. Eighty seven days later the 11 survivors were rescued by the steamer Hinemoa and brought to Dunedin. The route of vessels going round Cape Horn from Australia lies close to these islands, which are a long way west of Cape Horn, the point the missing vessel is believed to have reached.