AGROUND ON FIJI REEF '
Fishing Boat Abandoned * (NX Press Assn.— CopyrtpM) SUVA, Feb. 12. Twenty Japanese Seamen today abandoned Hie 100-tdn catcher Asahi Mara VIU which ran on the main reef off the south coast of -Viti Levu at 11 p.m. yesterday# The catcher is part oE, .-a Japanese fishing fleet working in the South Pacific. 1 Today she is firmly aground four miles /west of Singatoka township. The deck was awash at high tide this afternoon. The vessel was on Tier way from fishing grounds near the Solomons to a rendezvous at Suva with the mothership Tenyo Maru. The mothership went to the stranded vessel and the captain ordered the crew to abandon her. An engine breakdown is believed to have caused the stranding. This is the third Japanese mishap in recent months. Another catcher is still on a reef outside Suva and a third disappeared in the New Hebrides area.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29747, 14 February 1962, Page 8
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