SCOW CAPSIZES.
AN AUCKLAND HARBOUR ACCIDENT.. . (By Telegraph-Frets Assoclatfoa.V . Auckland, February 23. \ Thescow May, a wooden vessel of '41 ' tons, owned by' Mr. P. Bryant, capsized ■ off . the railway wharf last,.night. The May, which won the big'scow'ra'co at the - • last Aniuversary regatta, arrived ifrom Waiheke with. a load-of shingle yesteTdav morning, and took, up 'an -"anchorage off : the .railway -wharf, awaiting a .berth - there. Her skipper and crew; came.ishore ' early in the. evening,', arid: at? the tjme of, the accident tliere.was nobody on, board the vessel. ,)Vhcn, she. was, inspected this morning the May-was found?bottom -up, " with her foremast carried, away.'V.< The ~ vessel is sound, pnd thero is no question of her leaking.-, : The'.only reason-that, inthe owner's opinion, can put forward to explain'the'cause ,of the. accident is ' that the. ping somehow .or other .-worked > ' ■loose, and thus let the - water." into ' the • vessel. ' This afternoon the.' Harbour Board's tug, Te Awahina, towed the-ves--fel into shallow water, where sh6 will be',righted, examined, and irenaired,!: if necessary. •• " : •'
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1060, 24 February 1911, Page 4
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