UNSOLVED MYSTERY
SINKING OF NEW AMERICAN TANKER NO FAULT FOUND ON TRIAL RUN. POSSIBLE EXPLANATION SUGGESTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) PORTLAND (Oregon), January 18. The tanker Schenectady had completed its trial run without fault before sinking. The only plausible theory of the cause of the disaster —one which came from an unofficial source —is That a recent flood might have piled up a sand ridge under the dock, and the ship’s keel may have broken on this ridge as the tide receded. The Schenectady, a vessel of 16,500 tons, built in record time, sank in an outfitting dock at Mr H. J. Kaiser's Swan Island yard. Workmen heard a sound as though a seam had ripped.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1943, Page 4
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121UNSOLVED MYSTERY Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1943, Page 4
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