TASMAN ARRIVES IN TOW.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 201, 22 August 1912, Page 6

TASMAN ARRIVES IN TOW.

HER RUDDER MISSING. 1%; Northern Company's steamer TW man, 'wiik-h lost "her rudder in the P&eivM River yesterday afu-rnoon, as the tS suit of a collision with some sufbmermd ■abject, arrived in taw of the WaJotahi at 5 a.m. to-day. At the time of the collision the Tasman -was proceeding us ■the river dead slow, owing to a thick fog, which mad* it impossible to eat a ship's length, in any direction. Fortunately, the Tasnisin is a twijj. screw et earner, and by alternately i> versing and jjoing ahead with either propeller the steamer was kept in het course, and ultimately berthed. Ouri. oiis.lv enough, the s-pot where the Taaman struck was sit the bend in the rivet when the Tandwna came to grief. The Taaman left in the afternoon for Auckland, and though progress was naturally slower than usual. .Mr. O'Shea, the chief engineer, 'was able to manipulate the •propeller levers in order to direct the steamer as required from the bridge, in order to navigate the difficult oennee down the river to the gulf. The Teaman was off the Thames la.st night, -nien the "Waiotahi passed a line aiboard Bind took her in tow. The vessel -was admitted to the Graving Dock this after, norm for Tepairs.