More Ship Trouble
p. 25 · Read in the full issue
in BSIP
The BSIP’s run of shipping bad luck is continuing. On September 9, when on a voyage to Auki, on Malaita. the Margery was rammed by Kovala off Florida.
Details are sketchy as we go to press, but it is believed that the accident happened about 3 a.m., that Margery was sunk but Kovala was un damaged. All cargo is reported lost from Margery, but 47 passengers and crew were taken off. Kovala was, at that stage, reported to be search ing for wreckage.
The BSIP Government lost its modern ship Melanesian in mysterious circumstances in July, 1958. Betua was lost when searching for her. A few months ago, Coral Queen, when just a few months out of her Hongkong maker’s hands was damaged on a New Guinea reef and was out of commission for several months.