SHIP STRIKES WHARF
Caught By Squall In Berthing
Caught by a strong north-east squall while berthing at Lyttelton yesterday the Union Steam Ship Company’s motor-ship Kurutai | struck the Gladstone Pier heavily, damaging her bow and the pier. The vessel had arrived from Ardrossan with a full cargo of wheat for Lyttelton and Oamaru. The ship’s stem cut into the heavy timbers of the pier and lifted and bent a heavy steel girder carrying the crane rail There is a small fracture in the Kurutai’s stem, about 6ft above the water line, and a plate on the port side of the stem was badly dented. A survey of the damage to the vessel and to the wharf will be made today.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28161, 27 December 1956, Page 6
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