A STEAMER DELAYED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 177, 25 July 1908, Page 5

A STEAMER DELAYED.

SYDNEY, July 24. The steamer Kakapo, which left this port a week ago for Launeeston, with a hulk in tow, has not yet readied her destination. It is supposed that she is : sheltering. After lying for several years off Cre-ii-orne, says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" of Saturday" last, the old hulk, Nelson, slipped her moorings yesterday I and was towed to sra by the steamer j Kakapo, bound for Tasmania, where she ! is to do duty as a coal hulk. The old i ship, which was once a section of the J wooden battleship Nelson, launched near- [ ly 100 years ago, was originally the coal i hulk for the Oceanic mail line, but some mouths ago she was purchased by the Union S.S. Co. The towage of the hulk to Tasmania is being watched with interest. The vessel has no rudder, but I to steady her in the seaway lengths of cable are being dragged astern. The tow-line consists of a nine-inch Manila j hawser, shackled on to long lengths of rabies. There is no one on board the! hulk, and consequently the side lights ! were burning when she was towed to sea. a sufficient quantity of oil being carried to take the vessel with the lights uoing continuously until she reaches her destination. Captain Sinclair, the marine superintendent of the company, left by the Kakapo to watch the towing operations.