The Archive · 1936

Dollar Liner Goes Ground

ident Hoover Held Up For Six Hours En route from Shanghai to Hongkong, and shortly after passing Woosung, the s, President Hoover, giant Dollar 'Liner, went aground' near Kiutoan "Buoy early on July 30 and remained aground. for haifa day. At 8 o'clock in the afternoon she got off the bank safely, without any damage, and proceeded on her way.

The grounding took place at a time when the high water was only 7.05 feet above the lowest low water. After the first and third quarters of the moon, the neap. tide, as called, occurs, and at those times the high water Level is at its lowest point.

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