WHALE KILLED
STRUCK BY SHIP IN TASMAN. EXCITEMENT ABOARD LINER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. There was some excitement aboard the Orient liner Orford, which arrived this morning, when the big ship struck and killed a whale in the Tasman Sea, 210 miles off the Australian coast, on Tuesday morning, a day after leaving Brisbane. The officers had earlier seen two whales at a distance. A sudden tremor was felt throughout the afterpart of the ship and the engineroom, where it was realised' that somethinghad been struck by the port propellor. Passengers and crew gazing over the stern saw blood being churned up and a huge torn carcase drifting away. It is thought that the■ whale probably came to the surface after a dive and collided -with a propellor. Two years ago in the Gulf of Aden, a rising sea monster fouled the Orford’s bows and was killed, the ship having to go astern to free herself from the carcase.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1938, Page 6
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