COLLISION IN PORT PHILLIP BAY
TUG BADLY DAMAGED (Received December 22, 10.50 p.m.) MELBOURNE, December 22. In a collision in Port Phillip Bay early this morning the Adelaide Steamship Company’s freighter Alara (3279 tons) almost cut through the tug J. W. Alexander, which at the time was towing two lighters to Geelong. Two of the tug’s crew were thrown into the sea, but were rescued. The tug is now aground in eight feet of water beside the main channel.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21973, 23 December 1936, Page 9
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