THREE STRANDINGS AT CASTLECLIFF
Sea-Cook’s Memories
The coincidence of being closely associated with three of the standings of ships which have taken place on the Castleeliff eoast, Wanganui, was related by Mr. H. L. Davis, cook of the ' Wellington Harbour Board tug Toia, yesterday. He left the tug at Wanganui on hetarrival there, he said, because of an injury he had received during the tug’s buffeting on the rough passage up the coast to the rescue of the Port Bowen. Besides his connexion with this stranding, he joined the barque Carla immediately after she had been refloated after stranding at Castleeliff in 1912. She was a Scandinavian barque, purchased for the New Zealand and intercolonial trade, and she came out from Europe with a cargo of coal for the Wanganui gasworks. She went ashore in the same place as the Port Bowen. Caplain J. White, her master and part owner, dumped her coal overboard and refloated her. She went over to Australia to load hardwood, and was dismasted on her way back, being towed into Wellington by the Himatangi. Mr. Davis said he was also a member of the crew of the Indrabarah when she was stranded at Cas.lec.iff in 1913. He still possessed photographs of her lying in the breakers, and the beach littered w-ith barrels and bags and cases of jettisoned cargo. She was later refloated.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 258, 29 July 1939, Page 15
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