DISABLED IN HEAVY SEAS
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Freighter in Peril Near Melbourn? RESCUED BY TUGS
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(Received 18, 11.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 18. Rolling in heavy seas, with her engines disabled, the steamer AntolycUS was saved from a dangerous anchorage two miles outside Port Phillip Heads last night by two tUgs which raced to the ship from Melbournq in response to an urgent wireless message for assistance. Tlie freighter, with her two anehors holding on a TOclcy bottom, pitched in a heavy sWcll for more than seven hours. If the cables had parted\She would have 'been dashed on the reefs off Point Lonsdale. It was nearly three hotirs before a tug was able to seoure a line from the AUtolyCus, A further 24 hours elapsed before the tugs swung the, ship round against the wind and towed her into port. The pilot had just been taken aboard the Autolycus when the englnes bioke dOwn.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 5
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