SHIP OVERDUE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1932, Page 5

SHIP OVERDUE

ASTRAY IN HEAVY GALE

(Australian Press Association.)

SYDNEY, July 8

The missing steamer UllmarraV captain is William Buckingham, and her crew’ numbers .twentv

The vessel is carrying farm produce and timber from the North coast.

An aeroplane search of the coast was made to-day. It was unavailing.

Although the conditions are bad, due to heavy clouds, there is still hope that the Ullmarra turned seaward to the north-east, and ran before the gale.

.There is another overdue steamer, the Warraneen. Those interested in her cabled this morning that they believe that she is sheltering.'

•SEAPLANE TO GO IN SEARCH

DISTRESS SIGNALS SEEN

{Received this day at 10.16 a.m.) SYDNEY, ,Ju(y 9.

There is still no news of the Ulmarra, and a seaplan e will to-day scour Jar out to sea in search, while a steamer will also leave Sydney this morning. Officers of the steamer 'Mermoo, on its arrival nt Newcastle, reported that, in the height of the gale, they were biown to a position east of Port Stephens, and later have to off Norah Head.

When near that point shortly after seven o’clock -on Thursday night, they •sighted a steamer, to the south-east, which appeared to be signalling frantically, but th e .weather was too rough to enable messages to be picked up and she was soon lost to view. It was impossible to say whether the ship was the Uj’.marra. A coastal master .stated “If the gale had fasted for- forty-eight hours, I could understand the Ulmarra being blown so far off the coast that she would take a long tim 0 to get back,-but it only lasted for seven hours, and she should have reported by now.”