POSITION THOUGHT HOPELESS.
NOSE TILTED ON ROCKS. RENT IN BOTTOM OF HULL. (Wireless from "Star" Reporter.) s.s. MANAIA, this day. Throughout the morning the Manaia was lying steady, with her nose tilted on the rocks, and held in position by two bow anchors. The steamer resounded to the clang of hammers. Everything portable, including the ship's compass and binnacle, dining chairs, clocks, pieces of machinery, carpets, lamps, and cargo, was loaded "into small boats and transferred to the Rimu. The ilanaia, meantime, had been connected with the Rimu by lines, the boats thus making trips without the use of oars. The extent of the damage to the hull, the worst of which was caused as the ship pounded on the rocks ou Thursday night, and Friday morning, can be gauged when it is realised that there is water in all parts of the vessel, rising and falling with the motion of Hue sea. A representative of the marine underwriters says that the rent in the bottom is considerable, but the exact damage cannot be known until an examination has been made by a diver. The position, however, is thought to be hopeless.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 9
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192POSITION THOUGHT HOPELESS. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 9
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