MISSING BARQUE
KEENER ANXIETY FELT
PERIL FROM FLOATING ICE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.40 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. Keener anxiety is felt regarding the barque Koebenhavn, because of reports of the presence of floating ice in the Southern Ocean. Reinsurance rates at Lloyd’s have risen to £63 per cent. The Koebenhavn, the world’s largest sailing ship, is a steel five-masted barque of 3,901 tons. She has 70 cadets on board. She left Buenos Ayres on December 12 for Australia, and she has not been heard of since then. Some of the most prominent families in Denmark are affected. The Koebenhavn is rated at Lloyds as' a steamer, as she has an auxiliary engine and a screw, as well as a sailing vessel. She was built in 1921 by Ranhhge and Ferguson, Ltd., of Leith, and is owned by the Atlantic-East Asiatic Company of Copenhagen, after which, city she is named. She is 368 ft in lengith. and carries wireless.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 617, 20 March 1929, Page 9
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160MISSING BARQUE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 617, 20 March 1929, Page 9
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