JACOB RUPPERT
NEAR DISASTER
CLOSE CALL WITH ICEBERGS
(Special t 0 United Press Assn. —From
Byrd Expedition.)
WELLINGTON, December 27,
The Jacob Ruppert was near -disaster this morning when a large quantity of wafer, which had collected in the starboard oil tank, was inadvertently pumped into the boiler s extinguishing the fires.
Meanwhile two icebergs, each 200 feet high, loomed several hundred y.rds oft' the starboard and port sides. The chief engineer immediately switched the port tanks, restarting the fires, but the ship was rapidly losing speed and drifted helplessly.
Fortunately with the bergs less than three hundred yards away, the steam pressure returned to norma], and the Ruppert fought its way back into the wind. . It was a narrow escape.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1933, Page 5
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