Stranded Barge Pulled Clear
(New Zealand Press Association) NAPIER, March 9. The £95,000 Auckland-owned allsteel barge, Pohonui, stranded on Westshore beach, Napier, since Monday night, was pulled clear at 1.05 pan. today by the tug Mohala.
The barge carried a 1200ton cargo of serpentine for the East Coast Farmers’ Fertiliser Company at Awatoto, when it broke from its moorings inside the breakwater about 5 p.m. on Monday. It was washed up on the Westshore beach the same evening. Efforts to free her on
Tuesday failed and the owners decided to wait until
this morning before making another attempt. Six front-end loaders built a ramp out to the barge and unloaded three-quarters of the cargo through a hole cut in the side of the barge before it lifted clear and was pulled away from the shore by the tug.
This afternoon the Mohala towed the barge across the bay and berthed it at the Napier breakwater harbour, where the remainder of the serpentine will be unloaded tomorrow.
The barge will be towed back to Auckland empty. It will go on to the dry dock and be inspected, but the Mohala’s master, Mr E. Harrison, said this afternoon that from outward appearances, the barge appeared to have sustained no damage.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31315, 10 March 1967, Page 1
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