Ship Refloated
(New Zealand Press Association NELSON, April 16.
The Anchor Company’s 927-ton motor-vessel, Mamaku, which went aground on a sandbank at the entrance to the Motueka harbour at 12.30 a.m. yesterday was refloated this afternoon. About 4000 cases of her fruit cargo was transferred to the motor-vessels Taupata and Matipo before she refloated on the afternoon tide, and resumed her interrupted voyage to Wellington.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28872, 17 April 1959, Page 7
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