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HEROIC SEAMANSHIP

Havdrot Saved From Almost Certain Disaster

off

TUG BRINGS SHIP

TO HONGKONG

the

the sall was reaot and the course rogained,

1933.

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EUROPEAN FINED FOR LARCENY AND ASSAULT

Kowloon

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Travelling all day in this man- nor, the Havdrot eventually reach- ed a point 14 miles off Cape Bas- tion, where the sea was not too deep for anchorage. Fifty Georgo Clarke, aged 21, of Lon- fathoms of chain were paid out don, was again brought before Mr. before the anchor found bottom. Wynne-Jones, at the

Heavy sons were still running, Magistracy on Saturday morning, but the slip had now reached com- and sentoneed to four months' parative safety,

imprisonment on a charge of Although equipped with wire-inreeny from the person and fined less, the Havdrot carried no wire-$15 or 14 days' imprisonment on less operator. Early on Saturday1 charge of assault. morning Capt. Lovik decided to try Defendant was accused of having Her foredeck smashed, railings and effect repairs to the rudder, in hired a taxi on Tuesday morning twisted into grotesque shapes, order to reach assistance.

aud, after being driven to Castle An examination disclosed that Penk, having assaulted the driver and her rudder bar broken, the Norwegian ateamer Havdrot was the rudder, fortunately, had a

thon robbed of The victim was towed into Hongkong early on shackle, hole a foot under normal near Taun Wan on the return trip. 34.10. Two Indians, stated to have Saturday morning by the tug water lovel

Brave Chlef Oflcer.

beon with Clarke, were also arrest Henry Keswick.

Chief Oficer K. Naess volunteered, but no charge hae as yet been Battered by a monscional gale ed to go over the side of the ship brought against them.

the Hainan' coast,

and endeavour to pass a shackle Havdrot is extremely lucky to through the hole. Securely tied be safe in port. The story of into a beaun's chair with ropes, he her rescue from almost certain was lowered over the stern with destruction, constitutes one of the shackle. the most thrilling epics of sea- While members of the crow on Glenoarn, as he claimed to have LONDON SERVICE

the deck above anxiously watch-beon. The local agents did not manship on the China Coast.

With a full cargo of rice for ed, the Chief Officer endeavoured know anything about him.

whether ho had anything else to Hangkong, the Havdrot left Bang- to pass the shackle through the The Magistrate asked defendant kok early on the morning of hole. October 7. Weather reports re- He could work for only a feet-say, and on receiving a reply in ceived before the departure of the ing second while the rudder of the the. negative passed sentence. ship from Bangkok indicated that plunging ship was above water. two typhoons were raging in the As the stern of tho ship went China Sea, but they were thought down with each plunge, the Chief ship are Capt. 1. Lovik, who has to be too far from the route of the Officer also disappeared under the been on the China Coast for many years, Mr. K. Naess, the gallant ship to affect her soriously.

The Havdrot passed Varella For half an hour he struggled Chior Omcor, who arrived from PACIFIC SERVICE Lightship on October 9 without in-, with the shackle, and then screw-Norway two years ago, cident, but early next morning the ed it into position. But his work Ulland, Second Omeer, and Mr.. weather freshoned. By Wednes had only commenced. Two steel Sanne, Chief Engineer." dny, October 11, mountainous sean hawsers, with other shackles at- were continuously breaking over tacked, were lowered over

side, and the task of shack-

What makes the feat even more the ship.

The weather had abated slighting these into position was unremarkable is the fact that Capt. ly by Thursday morning, and the dertaken.. ship's ofcers, worn out by their the constant

against fight clements, were preparing for a well-earned rest, when the rudder bar snapped:

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Lovik was able to travel no less than 90 miles without the aid of a It was another hour before rudder and, utilising the tempor Naess, half drowned from his con-ary rudder controlled by hawsers, tinued Immersions, was hauled up was able to travel a further 210 on deck, his terrifying work com- miles to Holhaw. pleted.

The Invdrot has been employed The two steel bawsers were pass on the Bangkok-Hongkong run for Helpless, the Havdrot drifted ed up on ether side of the ship many years, and is well-known ou broadside on to the seas. The en- and safety was at last in sight the China Coast. She was built

The Chief Officer reported, how- gines were stopped while, working feverishly, the officers and crew ever, that less than an inch of rustin 1916 at Newcastle by Wood, improvised a jury rudder from encased iron separated the holoSkinner and Co. Ltd.

from the rim of the rudder, and tons, gross, she is owned by the some planks.

of Norway. The local agents are The jury rudder was completed any sudden strain would inevit A/S Hay (Helmer Staubo and Co.) by 2 p.m. and lowered over the jably anap it.

So, with anchor weighed, the Messrs. Karissen Larsen and Com-

resumed etern. But misfortune again In

ber/pany. tervened, for the steel cable con- Havdrot slowly necting the planks to the ship voyage in an effort to reach Hoi- snapped under the strain, and the how, the officers steering the ship

with the two wires attached to thej jest temporary rudder floated away.

rudder.

Seventy miles north of the Para-

Because of the danger of the cal islets when the rudder bar anapped, an observation at 4 pm. Bhacke snapping away from the were set at disclosed that the ship was drift-rudder, the engines ing rapidly on to dangerous shoals dead slow speed, and Hoihow was not, reached until Monday, Octo- off the Hainan coast.

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Port Reached. Immediately the ship made port,

pairs to the rudder, but, in face | Capt. Lovik despatched telegram:

of the mountainous waves, the of-to Hongkong for assistance, and ficers were helpless,

Perilously Near Shoals.

the tug Henry Keswick left here next morning,

The Haydrot was taken in tow The ship drifted during the on-Wednesday, and anchored out- whole of the night, and at day-side the Hongkong harbour limits break was within a few miles of on Friday night. The tow was resumed next morning and the ship' the shoals.

was brought to her present an- chorage it West Point.

When it was realised that the position was desperate, the Master of the ship; Captain L. Lovik, de- cided upon a last effort.

During the height of the gale the cargo had shifted slightly, and whon the

Hardrot arrived in The canvas awnings above the bridge and the after deck were Hongkong she had a list to star- stripped and, with the aid of board. The work of discharging needle and thread, were fashion- the cargo of, rice, which was un- ed into a rude sail, which, with damaged, commenced on Saturday, considerable dificulty, was raised and as soon as this is completed the Havdrot will gu into dock for on the foremost.

repairs,

The force of the wind against the sail veered the head of the ship to westward, and away from the dangerous shoala.

Steering With Sall.

By arranging the position of the sall Captain Lovik was able to maintain a westward course paral. lel with the Hainan coast.

With the rudder swinging alm- lessly from side to side, all the skill of a master mariner was called into play to keep the ship on this course.

While the course was maintained the engines were set half speed ahend. If, as happened frequent- ly, the ahip drifted temporarily. off, the engines were stopped until

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