THE KOBENHAVEN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 423, 6 January 1933, Page 2

THE KOBENHAVEN

ANOTHER SEARCH SGrroWing danish families further attempt at discovery 0 ALMOST FORLORN HOPE Melbourne, Saturday. It is fbilr years alihost to d day since the five-masted • training ship Eogenhaven lost ' contact with the shipping world and vanished into silence of the seas between Buenos t Aires and Adelaide. Search after search was made for the Danish barque and her yoxithful crew of 65 individuals. Long after Lloyd's p'osted the vessel as "lost at sea" investigation went on. Our company ' spent £20,000 in fitting out whaiers tb scbut the seas ; for tell-tale wfeckage. Theii the search languished for lack of funds. In a score of Danish seaports there are sorrowing mother's and fathers who must learn-' the- details of that inystefy ahd trhgedy. To raise funds for a revived search, the parent s have collected information relating to the ICobenhaven and published a hook, under the editorship of a Danish . journalist, Jens Ervo. One of the | first copies to reach Australia is in the possession of the chief officer of the motor ship Tongking. When the vessel arrived in Melbourne yesterday' there was considerable specuiation as to the fate of the Kobenhaven. She . left Buenos Aires on December 14, 1928 under the command of Captain Andersen to load wheat at Adelaide; On the 21st she established wireless communication with the Norwegian steamer William Blumer and reported her position, agreeing to communicate again . next day. But nothing inore came through. The largest sailing ship in the world, manned by mere boys, has never been heard of since. Rumour has it that she capsized', but sailorihen are firm in the belief that she rammed an iceberg and brought tons of ice crashing to her decks. The project of the Danish parents to be carried out ih two small sailing ships is almost a forlorn hope. The sea Seldom gives up its dead.