Tiri On Shoal
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 10. Radio Hauraki met misfortune again this tnorning when the “pirate” ship Tiri II lost her $4OOO transmitting aerial after being forced on to a shoal by violent winds near the Whangaparapara jetty on Great Barrier Island.
The ship had spent the night tied to the jetty, sheltering from the storm, but at 2.50 a.m. the 195-ton vessel was wrenched from the jetty’s bollards by gale force winds and heavy seas, and struck a shoal about 30 yards away.
At 4.50 a.m. the 160 ft-long aerial crashed over the side into the pounding surf. Mr D. R. S. Lowe, a director of Radio Hauraki, said this afternoon that although the Tiri II was taking a little water, she had suffered no damage to her hull.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31652, 11 April 1968, Page 12
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Tiri On Shoal
Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31652, 11 April 1968, Page 12
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