Tug Near Amoy Another chapter in the dramatic history of the s. Asia, the ship on which two Britons. and a sprinkling of her crew were stranded for twenty months in Amoy. is now being written {in the seas off the Fukien coast where she is drifting derelict Her exact position 1s unknown, but it is believed to be between ten and twenty miles from Amoy.
'A warning to all chipping was on Thursday broadcast by' the. authorities, The Asia is without lights, having gone adrift while being towed towards Japan where it is believed that the was to have been broken up. No details of the accident which caused the hawser to break had been received In Shanghai yesterday, but from the nature of the brief message that did come, it was presumed that there was no one on board. The tuz which was towing her has returned to Amoy.
The a9, Asia is of 4,007 gross tonnage and has a long list of previous ames," Built "in 1890 by Barela Curle& Ca. of Glasgow. she was called the Donne Castle. As aged and changed hands s0 she changed her names in turn to St. Domingo, Curenia, Kaljo Maru, Susanna If, and finally Asia. During recent years she was on the Amoy to Manila run. but owing to disputes as to ownership, she was tied up In Amoy while dilatory courts sought to determine who should pay the faalarles of her affeers and crew. In The meantime those salaries were lunpald, and the ship, left to herself, deteriorated Into a dangerous condi-ton.
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