MYSTERY SHIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 937, 2 April 1930, Page 9

MYSTERY SHIP

NATIVES TELL STORY OF DRIFTING BARQUE CLUE TO KOEBENHAVN United P.J. —By Telegraph Copyriy it LONDON, Monday. Mr. Philip Lindsay, a lay preacher who has just returned to London from Tristan da Cunha, in an interview referred to the mystery ship sighted by the islanders on January 21, 1929. He said he was confident that the vessel was the missing Danish sljip Koebenhavn, which disappeared in December, 1925, while on its way from Buenos Ayres to Australia, with 70 cadets on board. Mr. Lindsay said the ship was fivemasted. Her mainmast was broken. She had a broad white band around her hull. She was heading directly for the beach from which the islanders were watching her, but when she was seven and a-half miles away she seemed to drift further eastward. The sea was too rough for the islanders to use their canvas boat. They saw no sign of life on board the ship. She was carrying only one jib and her stern was very low in the water —immersed to the white band. The islanders last saw’ the ship within a quarter of a mile of the shore. Several things afterward were W’ashed up on to the beach, but no bodies went ashore. Those on board must all have been dead before the ship approached Tristan. The Koebenhavn was the only fivemasted barque the world.