THE SCOW RELIANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 11

THE SCOW RELIANCE.

TOWED TO OKEHUNGA.

Mr George Vause, manager of the Onehunga Sawmilling Company, chartered a launch and went in search of the wrecked saw Reliance, which he found lying safe immediately underneath the property owned by Mr Allsop, architect, at Onia Bay, and well inside the Manukau Heads. The vessel looked as if she had been moored there by ber crew, the bay being about the safest and most sheltered nook inside the Ileads. Both anchor chains were out, but the anchors had disappeared. The position of the ship's masts gave the greatest surprise to the search party. When the accident happened to the Reliance last Monday both masts were snapped off by the sudden squall beneath the decks. The men tried to remove the gear prior to towing the vessel up to Onehunga. but they could not do so, as it had fouled the vessel's bottom. They therefore towed her up to the Horn just as she was, arriving there last evening. Mr Vause found the Reliance full of water. Fortunately the ship's papers, with others, had been placed on a shelf in the cabin, and were found there quite safe. To-day the scow Elsie went down to the Horn and moored alonpside the Reliance, when her derrick will be requisitioned to lift the masts and remove the gear. The Reliance is quite salvable, and the Onehunga hawmilling Company intend to have her made seaworthy at once, when it is hoped she will serve her owners for many years to come. The Reliance was on her wav to Kaipara in ballast to load timber when she got wrecked.