HUGE WAVE KILLS MEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 450, 4 September 1928, Page 9

HUGE WAVE KILLS MEN

SWEPT OVER FREIGHTER CHIEF ENGINEER LOSES LIFE (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and K.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.58 a.m. COLOMBO, Monday. Chief Engineer Tullock and a lasoar lost their lives, while the fourth and fifth engineers were seriously injured, when the Brocklebank freighter Anchoria, 6,1X2 tons, bound from Calcutta to Colombo, shipped a heavysea in the Bay of Bengal on August 28. The chief engineer and a party of lascars were engaged in repairing a steam-pipe casing, which had broken loose on the foredeck. The ship lurched, and as the bow dipped a huge wave swept over her. The lasear was washed into the sea. Tullock was fatally injured and was buried at sea. TERRIFIC SEAS A NOTORIOUS GRAVEYARD (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed, noon CAPETOWN, Monday. The steamer Clan Lamont has limped into Algoa Bay, after battling since Friday with terrific seas. From Madagascar she was making Capetown to coal. A sailor was washed overboard, and three lifeboats were carried away. She developed a dangerous list to starboard. Her distress calls were answered by the Pakipaki, which escorted her to porL The spot w’here the gale struck her with the fiercest force was the notorious graveyard of the ships Marguerite and Competitor, and is believed to be the site of the mysterious Waratali wreck, years ago, when the new ship disappeared without leaving a trace.