SCOW WARRIOR ASHORE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Assodatwm.) I — NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. , The scow Warrior, which: left the breakwater "on Thursday afternoon'with timber for Wanganui, is reported ashore lat Oakura. No particulars are yet available. | LATER. The Warrior left the Breakwater at three p.m. on Thursday for Wanganui. It was very dark at 5.30, when she was off Oakura. At nine p.m. the wind shifted and droped. Captain Anderson tried to go about, but the vessel would not answer. She wore round, but could not work out. He let go the anchors, but they would not hold, and the scow drifted ashore. The crew got off at midnight at low water, when the vessel was high and dry. They saved their papers and belongings. The vessel will probably break up. She is laden with timber for the WaWnganui Sash and Door Company.
[The Warrior was built eight years iago in Auckland. She is well found. 'She is owned by Captain Seymour, of Te Kopuru, and is believed to be uninIsured. The vessel lies near where the 'Gairloch was wrecked]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 20 April 1906, Page 4
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178SCOW WARRIOR ASHORE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 20 April 1906, Page 4
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