SCOW EUNICE STRANDED
I , VESSEL BADLY DAMAGED,
By Telei:raph.—Press Association,
i .' '.im.-' >- Wanganui, September 26. /,' J-he New Zealand Refrigerating Company's auxiliary scow Eunice, bound I'rom -Wellington to Wanganui, with a i... .cargo of barrels of tar, struck on the south mole while entering tho river this afternoon. Captain Holm and the crew abandoned the vessel and landed safoly. . ■ ~ Subsequently the vessel was driven up on the south spit of the beach, and now, lies iu an exposed position close to the shore. : From the amount of wreokago drifting «p on the beach it is evident the veßsel is badly damaged, and the prospects of refloating her are problematical.- A survey of. the vessel will be mode at low tide to-morrow. At the time of the mishap the weather ': conditions were normal. The Eunice left j Wellington on Saturday last and was decayed by bad, 'weather in the Straits.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 2, 27 September 1917, Page 5
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