Attempt To Recover One Of Lifeboats
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 15. An attempt to tow one of the Wahine’s three-ton lifeboats from the foreshore at Eastbourne will be made tomorrow, but two smaller ones from the Aramoana on the coastline further towards Pencarrow at the heads will probably be abandoned, as they are badly damaged.
Three of the four boats which were launched from the starboard side of the Wahine are accounted for and are un damaged. The Union Steam Ship
Company's shore superinten dent, Captain D. A. Miller, and a team of workmen are engaged in preliminary efforts to remove the lifeboat em bedded in the sand at Eastbourne. A channel will have to be dug for it to be towed back to sea The motors from the two Aramoana lifeboats have been removed and a heavy lift crane will be sent round the coast when the road is cleared. More wreckage is being washed ashore along the coastline and is being transported to a city depot. The R.N.Z.V.R. launch Manga and the police launch Lady Elizabeth are patrolling the harbour.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31655, 16 April 1968, Page 24
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