KOBENHAVN MYSTERY
AUSTRALIAN’S THEORY
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
LONDON, April 20.
A young Australian journalist, Mr J. Villiers, who has been round the world in sailing vessels, advances a new theory for the disappearance of the Danish cadet ship “Koebanhavn.” Mr Villiers has been corresponding with the missionary, Mr Lindsay, and asserts that he has full confidence in the latter’s story of having seen the ship headed for the rocks at the island of Tristan Da Cunha.
The Australian journalist stated that he believed that the Ktebenhavn struck an ice berg in the South Atlantic, and shipped water in an alarming way, upon which her crew of cadets took off in boats, attempting to keep close to the big sailing boat but became separated from her, and were lost, while the currents swept the Koebenhavn across the South Atlantic to the reefs of Tristan da Cunha, where she was smashed to kindling wood. Mr Villiers stated: “Anyone knowing these parts as I do would readily understand that the cliffs of Tristan de Cunha might grind one hundred ships and leave nothing of them but a splinter or two of matchwood.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1930, Page 6
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