DISMANTLING OF PORT BOWEN
MATERIALS SALVAGED FO£ MANY PURPOSES (press association telegram.) WANGANUI, January 18. The Port Bowen, stranded on CastleclifT Beach, is beginning to bear all the appearance of a wreck as the work of stripping advances. The whole of the top hamper has been removed, the first to go being the funnel and the bridge, and then the deckhouses. With the ship being pounded by heavy seas, paint,has given way to rust. All the side railing is gone and much of the plating forward has been cut away. Much material has been sent to other parts of New Zealand. The piping and cork in the insulation chambers have been sent to Kakariki, where the old freezing works are to be fitted up for the cool storage of meat until it can be shipped to Great Britain. Some of the refrigerating machinery has also been taken out.
The foreshore near the ship resembles a marine dealer’s yard, on which a variety of material taken from the steamer is heaped. This includes much piping and plates, various classes of timber and thousands of minor parts. It will be some time before all the machinery has been removed. When it is the plating will be cut away down to the water’s edge.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23232, 20 January 1941, Page 13
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