SEA TOOK CHARGE

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1938, Page 8

SEA TOOK CHARGE

STEAMER'S PLIGHT. CAFE REINGA BATTERING. CAPTAIN ILOODED HOLD. At :..e ,>u .. v .t huge Si-a- and .1 w:-t- ---:: ,'f X .r'"-L"'V:U\ an! ■..I-.r.. ..j "v-uraoayj. -u'ju;' a I v a, <n !"♦-*;!e iiomM.i bunk- >::>• I' •:: iI.. Ii 1.. rt a I bi-t I in halla-t trim, the u «.,T .lit two a::.I put about t> make a run f..r \\ ;-.h Teaie and C<»'umbia Jlcef I out.'. ok v. a- bho-k. ... t ai-tak: !). V.".iiiani-5 ].r.tmp:iy do. 1 .-n t a-.' Liana- ih-n \\a< draw in; Oft l.v tlie h.oa i aral 12f: by the -tern. Drift to Lee Shore. From noun .<at::r lay until -3 p.:::.. ta ■ ship cvt:ld make no better than :ivc kn •: - a-jain-t the rale and at live oVIo-k tinstorm took charge and carried taship in towards the lee shore. Memoir- of the >'nip's company were flun-r n'oiit bv tile ungi "ivernaMc but no one was injured and no structural damage was surfered. When it was dec; led to take recourse to ilorKlin.s the hold no time could he spared to :vniove dunnage and all hands worked as one man to ca =_' tlie ship. The master. however, con-id -red that hi- supply of IjO tans, of bunker »•»* might l>e insufficient for the Tasnian crossing and put back to Auckland for

| more. Oil her return last evening. the j Llangollen dropped anchor off the Dev.-u----j port Xaval Base, riding over her port anchor and lowering the starboard one J for steadiness. j Shortly before noon to-day. the Llangollen was taken in hand by a Harbour Board tug and brousrht alongside Queen's wharf to load an additional In tons of bunker coal. Owing to the fa t that loading was delayed from ail eitrht o'clock s" rt to a one o'clock start, an . weather cmd'.tiwere uncertain for working, it was thought the ship could not continue her voyage until to-morrow. Pumping of Hold. When the Llangollen came aloncr-hle she ap)>eared none tiie worse • for her experience, but the hatch cover of £ . 4 hold was partly opened, and seab>.ted members of the crew were at work lielow clearing up the debris. The hulk Jubilee, as she moored to the steamer, had her decks flooded with the water discharging from the hold. Captain Williams admitted that his ship had been in an nnpleasant position, and the flooding of the bold had l>een a last resort against running ashore. He added that the hold would again be flooded for the resumption of the voyacre. which might be delayed if conditions did not soon abate. The captain remarked the fact that the last time he was in Auckland he lay alongside the same wharf in the sailing ship Alliance. He served five years and a half in sail, and was to have called again in another such vessel, but she was diverted to Adelaide.