Week ending Dec. 18th.
SABLE ISLAND--Green single barbette-tower freighter, number
indistinguishable, up-ended, and fore-tank pierced after collision,
passed 300-ft. level Q P. as Dec. 15th. Watched to water and pithed by
Mark Boat.
N. F. BANKS--Postal Packet 162 reports Halma freighter (Fowey--St.
John's) abandoned, leaking after weather, 46° 151 N. 50° 15' W. Crew
rescued by Planet liner Asteroid. Watched to water and pithed by Postal
Packet, Dec. 14th.
KERGUELEN, MARK BOAT reports last call from Cymena freighter (Gayer
Tong Huk & Co.) taking water and sinking in snow-storm South McDonald
Islands. No wreckage recovered. Messages and wills of crew at all A. B.
C. offices.
FEZZAN--T. A. D. freighter Ulema taken ground during Harmattan on Akakus
Range. Under plates strained. Crew at Ghat where repairing Dec. 13th.
BISCAY, MARK BOAT reports Caducci (Valandingham Line) slightly spiked in
western gorge Point de Benasdue. Passengers transferred Andorra (Fulton
Line). Barcelona Mark Boat salving cargo Dec. 12th.
ASCENSION, MARK BOAT--Wreck of unknown racing-plane, Parden rudder,
wire-stiffened xylonite vans, and Harliss engine-seating, sighted and
salved 7° 20' S. 18° 41' W. Dec. 15th. Photos at all A. B. C. offices.