ADVENTUROUS TRIP
Tramp Steamer’s 111-luck By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, September 2. Misfortune has dogged the Australian tramp steamer Bariuvra, which inut into Auckland at midday, short of coal. She left' Michikata, Japan, on July 15, but on August 1 had to land a fireman named H. Sharrack at Nauru owing to a poisoned hand. Head winds delayed the ship, and the voyage from Japan to Mukatea took 32 days. At Makatea John Sinclair, a seaman, fell down a hold. He was taken ashore, but died' the same afternoon. He was a son of the wharf superintendent at, Brisbane. Leaving Makatea on August 18, the Barunga encountered a gale- for two days and later cyclonic conditions in which she shipped some water. It is stated that the call at Auckland was purely a precautionary measure, as there was sufficient coal in the bunkers to take the ship to Newcastle provider! the weather remained fine.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 291, 4 September 1933, Page 10
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