BATTERED BY SEAS
STORM TOSSES DISABLED STEAMER FOR SEVEN DAYS. ADELAIDE, June 18. With her masts describing giant arcs as the ship rolled in the surging seas of the Australian Bight, two Chinese searnen, slung in staging over the stern of the disabled Milluna, were battered by the might rollers as they fought to loop a wire rope over the propeller. The seamer reaehed the Semaphore at 8 a.m. to-day, having been towed through storm for 800 miles by the tug Uco for seven days, all but three hours. Chief Engineer Alex. Madden said he did not know why the ship did not turn turtle, as she wallowed helplessly in mountainous seas waiting for the tug. The screw was jammed against the stern post, and the two Chinese had a difficult task loopirfg the wire rope over it to prevent it working free and sinking. The Milluna trailed 420 yards astern of the Uco with a chain cable and wire rope eonnecting them, sagging in the sea. High in Water. The ship was drawing only 9ft forward and 21ft aft, and in this light trim she rolled to every wave. No seas broke aboard, ,because she was so high out of the . water. The crew of therMiliuna comprises 10 white men, including two Australians, and. 22 Chinese.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 265, 2 July 1932, Page 3
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