IN TROUBLE AGAIN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1141, 31 May 1911, Page 7

IN TROUBLE AGAIN.

S.S. PAPANUFS BOILERS LEAKING. By Telegraph—l'rcss Association-OoDjriEhi Perim, May 29. The steamer Papanui's boilers are leaking. The work of repairing is "being , proceeded with, and the steamer will resume her journey at the earliest possible date. A CHEQUEEBD CAEEER. The Papanui has had an unusually chequered career. She is a vessel of 6582 tons' gross, and was built by Messrs. Denny, at Dumbarton, to the order of the New Zealand Shipping Company in 1698. Towards the end of 1901 she put into Vigo, Spain, on fire, and before the flames were "extinguished 38,000 carcasses of mutton had to be jettisoned. In April, 1909, a firo broke out on board the vessel while sho was' lying in dock in London, After repairs had been effected sXe was put in the lay-up berth for some tinie, nnd towards the end of the year sailed for New Zealand, her cargo also.including a quantity of railway material for Tasmania. After discharging the New Zealand cargo the Papanui sailed for Tasmania to unload the railway consignments. While passing through. Bass Strait she struck on Waterhousc Island, damaging her plates for a length of 250 feet on both sides of the keel. She was saved by her double bottom, and was able to steam to Melbourne. The lowest tender for repairing the vessel was about .£30,000, and the company, considering this prohibitive, sold the vessel at auction. Her new owners, finding that sho could bo repaired in the East for about half that sum, effected temporary repairs, and sought to leave Melbourne for Nagasaki. The shipping authorities declared the ship unssaworthy, but she (jot away in defiance of them, with a Filipino crew on board and under the Nicaraguan flag. On her return sho entered trade to England under the auspices of a syndicate styled the Australian Shipping Company. "She was' taking passengers Home in time for the Coronation at from J!3B to .CIS a head