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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 635, 11 April 1929, Page 8

SEA MYSTERIES Despite the dispatch of a search ship from Cape Town, the prospect that anything more will be heard of the stately Danish ship Kobenhavn grows more slender day by day. Her course to Australia took her along the edge of the Antarctic, where some fearful storm may have engulfed her, leaving her at one with the Waratah, the dredge Manchester, and the host of other ships that have put out from port and reached only the sailor’s last haven. The Waratah’s case is classical. Leaving Durban for Cape Town, she must have foundered off the coast, and airmen report that they have seen a mysterious under-water shape that may reveal the secret of her restingplace. The dredge Manchester disappeared on her way out to New Zealand from England. Nearer the New Zealand coast there have been any amount of similar tragedies, tile tragedies of unexplained disappearances. The tug Duco left Wellington for the Chathams in 1909; a sturdy craft was the Duco, but she was never seen again. The Flora McDonald left Whangaroa for Wellington in 1851; no further trace. The Sicilia, in 1864, disappeared between Whangaroa and Auckland. Sea mysteries there are a-plenty, but nowadays when a bi.s ship is in trouble the world usually hears the grim tale of her deaththroes by wireless, and it is the absence of any messages from the Kobenhavn that deepens the tragic secret.