THE STRANDED LINER FIRE BREAKS OUT ON BOARD. DANGEROUS CARGO REMOVED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19, 24 January 1911, Page 7

THE STRANDED LINER FIRE BREAKS OUT ON BOARD. DANGEROUS CARGO REMOVED.

TUGS EXTINGUISH THE FLAMES. By Telegraph.— Prers Association.— Copyrighb. LONDON, 23rd January. Renter's correspondent at Capetown states that the Aotea's cargo included 300 tons 01 dynamite, which was removed during the week-end to a hulk in the bay. A fire broke ont on the Aotea at ten minutes past eleven on Sunday night abaft the funnel, and spread to the galley and deck-house. Tugs from the docks extinguished the fire, after it had burned for ninety minutes. (Received January 24, 8.55 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 23rd January. Three hundred and fifty tons of dynamite have been salved from the stranded liner Aotea. The five on board was extinguished at midnight. Besides the stranding on the Canadian coast referred to yesterday, the Aotea has met with one or two other minor mishaps. On 12th May, 1895, the steamer touched the western end of the William Davie Bank while going up the Bluff harbour, but sustained no damage. On 11th February, 1900, while in command of Captain E. J. Evans, the present Marine Superintendent of the Shaw, Savff] and Albipn Company at Wellington, a fire broke out in the stokehold and engineroom when she was eighty miles from Wellington, and she returned to this port. Several other large vessels have met with disaster in the neighbourhood of Capetown. On 20th June, 1907, ths Everton Grange, bound from Liverpool to Australia and New Zealand, struck a rock oil Duyker Pomt — close to where the Shaw, Savill liner Maori was wrecked, with the loss of many lives, in August, 1909 — and ripped a hole in her oottom 20ft long. The year before (1906) the Oakburn, which left New York for Australia and New Zealand — was wrecked at Duyker Point. Captain Olliver, who is well-known in Wellington, was in command of ths Aotea when she came to grief. This is his first trip on the vessel. {He was formerly chief officer on the Arawa, and remained behind in London on that vessel's last outward voyage to up his new charge. ™ The "Aotea is jointly owned by tho Shaw, Savill and Albion Company and the White Star Line. Dassen Island, the lights of which were seen on the Aotea — was the scene of the wrecks of the steamers Queen of the Thames, the Bulli, the Ashley Brook, and the Wallarah. The last-named vessel belonged to the Lund Line, and was on her first voyage.