DISABLED STEAMER
DANGEROUS ANCHORAGE SAVED BY TUGS K MELBOURNE, Nov. 18. 1 Rolling in heavy seas with her en*' gines disabled, the steamer Autolycugl was saved from a dangerous anchor-' age two miles outside Port Phillip) Heads last night by two tugs which 1 raced to the ship from Melbourne ini response to an urgent wireless mes 4 sage for assistance. The freighter with two holding on the rocky bottom pitched in the heavy swell for more thari seven hours. If the cables had partd ed she would have been dashed oij reefs off Point Lonsdale. It wat nearly three hours before a tug wad able to secure a line from the Auto| lycus and a further 2i hours elapsed before the tugs swung the ship round against the wind and towed her intd port. The pilot had just been take| on board the Autolycus when the enj vines broke down. *
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 275, 19 November 1937, Page 7
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