STEAMER HAVO

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 122, 27 April 1925, Page 11

STEAMER HAVO

MYSTERY EXPLAINED. SYDNEY, April 24. With tho return to Sydney of the steamer Havo some light is thrown on the mystery which was attached to the ship in February. The cuptain explained that ho went close inshore for two reasons, viz., because ho wanted to get clear of the strong southerly current prevailing at tho time, and becauso ho was hoping to beat a Japanese steamer, which stood off the coast in the thick of the current, wherein ho succeeded. He added that the Havo was not a mystery ship in any sense of the term. —Press Association.

On a night in the middle of February tho news agent at Morewether was called out of bed and asked by a foreign woman questions regarding the depth of water off Merowether beuelt, and whether it would bo possible to bring a steamer close in. He replied that he. knew nothing about such matters uud the woman departed. Tho next morning tho signalmaster at Neweastlo sighted tho Norwegian steamer Havo coming up from tho south, when she suddenly turned as if to go into Merewether beach. Fearing the ship had mistaken the entrance to the Newcastle harbour, the signal-master signalled; “Stand off; you are in danger.” The vessel gave no indication of having seen the signals. She steamed up the coast till opposite Nobby. Thinking that possibly the Havo, being a foreign ship, would not understand the signals, the pilot vessel went out to meet her. When within half a mile of tho vessel, the Havo, still without acknowledging the signal, went full steam ahead and was soon lost to sight up tho coast.