VESSEL TOUCHES BANK
MISHAP TO* CORNWALL IN OTAGO HARBOUR NO DAMAGE DONE (PA) DUNEDIN, April 14. While steaming down Otago harbour, bound for Bluff, this mornine the Fed?J*al Steam Navigation Company'! 10.000-ton freighter Cornwall touched a bank near Goat Island, but suffered no damage. The vessel put into Port Chalmen and surveyors confirmed that the ship was not harmed by the mishap. ~The Cornwall touched shortly after 11 o clock, having cleared the Victoria street wharf at Dunedin, where she nad been lying for some weeks, at 10.15 P-m. She was brought promptly to the George street wharf at Port Chalmers, where she was inspected for any poisibie damage. She sailed at 9.15 p.m. for Bluff.
The captain of the Cornwall. Captain A. I. Robertson, and the actingnarbourmaster, Captain F. Mackenzie, declined to make a statement, but it was stated by a representative of the agents, the New Zealand Shipping Company, that no damage had resulted trom the vessel striking the bank.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25161, 17 April 1947, Page 6
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