THE KOEBENHAVN
Australian Press Association.
FRUITLESS SEARCH, Disappearance Remains TJnsolved.
(Beceived This Day, Noon). SYDNEY, This day. A radio message froin the steamer, Junee, states that during tlie week a searcli was made of tlie area east southeast of St. Raul's Islaiid but that no sign was discoveied of the missing Koebenhavn. Severe south-west gales. ancl hurricaue squalls comiiellecl the Junee to heave to. The Koebenhavn was rated at LloycVe as ■ a steamer, as she liad an auxiliarv engine atid a screw, as well as . a sailing vessel. She was built ili 1921 by Ramage and Ferguson, Ltd,, of Leitb, and is ownccl by the AtlanticEast Asiatic Company of Copenhagen, after wliieh city islie was named. She was 368 feet i'n length and carried wireless. The Koebenhavn was last spoken to some hundreds of miles north-ivest of the Tristan da Cunlia group of islands, which lie nearly halfway from Captown to Buenos Aires, in the South Atlantic.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 169, 19 August 1929, Page 7
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157THE KOEBENHAVN Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 169, 19 August 1929, Page 7
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