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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 7

DISABLED AT SEA

-FreSji Ap&oeiation.S

City of Shan&hai Steaming Slowly io Auckland

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AUCKLAND, Last; Night. i Prepared to help the Gity ef j SJhangfiai, disatied several hundred; •jriiles to the norjfch-west oi Pitcairn i Island . With a fr&cture oi the inter- ( mediritfe tunnel Shafif, thi Eedefal Line( steamer Northumberland, which arrived/ at Auckland from Jfewp'ort, Monmouthshire, stood by fer four hours uhtil fclle eztdnt oi the troabie had been isgert&ined. The NorthiiMbeHand elgired Panama shortly after the City Oi Shangbai, "wMch TFiS travelling irom Nefr York t6 Ati&kland, anS •when the shaft oi ihe steamer broke at midnight On July 10, the Pederal Ling ship was ionly 12 ho'urs steaming aStfenn1 At the request oi the Gity oi Ishanghali ihe Nofthuinbefland waited iwiihin tWO miles oi the disablfed ship, irom noon until 4 p.m. on July 11. On receipt Oi a Signal that the tfoubio cOuld be temporarily remedied, the NorthiMberland dontinued 61 her voyage« Exceptionally find weather with cairn seas was being 'experienced at ihe time 6f the acicdent and this considerably lessened the difficulty Of thi itfeamgr *S position. AlthOugB the City oi Glasgow, Ott route from Montreal to Auckland, did .not elear Pahania until more thdn a jWeek after the Northumberland, it is jcongidered that she reached the Gity Oi iShanghai several dayg ago. Bota ships are steaming together at ,def?I slow jspied for Auckland, where they afe expeeted on Atlgnst 4i