THE KOEBENHAVN.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17985, 2 April 1930, Page 5

THE KOEBENHAVN.

LIGHT ON ITS FATE,

seen AT TRISTAN DA CUNHA.

A MISSIONARY’S STORY,

United Press Assn.—Elec- Tel. —Copyright. LONDON, March 31. Mr. Philip Lindsay, a lay preacher who has just returned to London from Tristan da Cunha, in an interview' referred to the mystery ship sighted l)} the islanders on January 21, 1929. He said ho was confident that the vessel was (he missing Danish ship Koebenhavn. Mr. Lindsay said the ship was flverriasled. Her mainmast was broken. She had a broad white hand around her hull. She was heading direct;) for the beach from which the islanders were watching her, but when she was seven and a-half miles away she seemed to drift further eastward. The sea was too rough for the islanders to use their canvas boat. They saw no sign of life on hoard the ship. She w r as carrying only one jib and her stern was very low' in the water—immersed to the while band. The islanders last saw the ship within a quarter of a mile of the shore. Several things afterwards were washed up on to the beach, but. no bodies went ashore. Those on board must all have been dead before the ship approached Tristan.’ The Koebcnhavn was the only fivemasted barque in the world.

The Koebcnhavn, a steel five-masted barque of 3901 tons, the world’s largest sailing ship, with 70 cadets on board, left Buenos Aires on December 12, 1 928, for Australia and was last spoken some hundreds of miles northwest of the Tristan da Cunha group of islands, which lie nearly half-way from Capetown lo Buenos Aires, in the South Atlantic. Nothing has been seen or heard of her, though a thorough search was instituted by the Danish Government.