KOBENHAVN MYSTERY
SiORY FROM TRISTAN DA O.UNHA [United Press Association--By Electric Telegraph—Copyr ght.] LONDON, March 31.
“I am confident that it was .the ship Kobenliavn,” said Phillip Lindsay, a- lay preacher, upon his return from Tristan da Cunlia, when referring to a mystery ship which was sighted on January 21st., 1929. “She was five-masted, with her main mast- broken, and had a broad white band around the bull. She was heading directly for the beach, from which we were watching, but when. 7\ miles away, she seemed to drift further eastwards. The sea was too rough to use, the island’s canvas boat. We saw no sign of life on .the ship. She was carrying only one jib, and her stern was lowest. There the water immersed her up to the white band. We last saw the Kobenliavn within a quarter of a mile of the shore. Several tilings were afterwards washed up, but no bodies. They must have all been dead before the ship approached Tristan da Cunlia.”
The Kobenliavn was the only fivemasted barque in the world. She was a Danish training ship.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1930, Page 6
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