Port of Las Palmas

The second document in the case is the unintelligible wireless message which was intercepted by several vessels, including the Royal Mail Steamer Aroya.

It was received at 3 p.m. October 3rd, 1926, which shows that it was dispatched only two days after the Stratford left the Grand Canary, as shown in the previous letter, and it corresponds roughly with the time when the Norwegian bark saw a steamer founder in a cyclone 200 miles to the southwest of Puerto de la Luz.

It ran thus, Blown on our beam ends, fear position hopeless, have already lost Marico, Headley, Scanlon, situation incomprehensible, Headley, handkerchief end of deep sea sounding wire, God help us, S.S. Stratford.

This was the last incoherent message which came from the ill-fated vessel, and part of it was so strange that it was put down to delirium on the part of the operator.