OIL TANKER ASHORE
RUN OF BAD LUCK DANGER TO LIVERPOOL By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Saturday. The British oil tanker Varand, 6,023 tons, while returning from her maiden voyage to New Orleans loaded with 7,400 tons of benzine, ran aground at the mouth of the Mersey. The disaster Is the climax of three weeks’ buffeting. The Varand lost her propeller and rudder after striking a submerged wreck in the Atlantic. An S.O.S. signal brought the assistance of a powerful tug and she was under tow when a fierce squall broke the tow rope. The crew say they left New Orleans on a Friday; they encountered the first gale on a Friday; the ship struck the wreckage on a Friday. On two subsequent Fridays they saved the ship by the barest margin, and finally she grounded in sight of home on Friday. The Varand was constructed by the Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Company last year for the Baltic Trading Company.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 283, 20 February 1928, Page 9
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162OIL TANKER ASHORE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 283, 20 February 1928, Page 9
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