MISHAP TO CLAN OGILVY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1912, Page 7

MISHAP TO CLAN OGILVY

VESSEL PUTS BACK TO WELLINGTON. On Saturday week last, .the Scales liner Clan Ogilvy left for Newcastle, after having discharged a foad of coal from Westport at Dunedin. Last eveninjg the vessel put back to Wellington, with a damaged intermediate shaft. First news of the mishap came in the shape of a wireless message from the Moana, which left Wellington on Friday last for Sydney, fine Marconigram stated that the Clan Ogilvy was about fifty miles west of Farewell Spit with her shaft damaged, bkit temporarily tbpaired. At about noon yesterday, the Union Company's tug Terawhiti put to sea, to ascertain whether any assistance oould be rendered the partially disabled vessel, but the Captain of the Clan Ogilvy intimated that he could reach port without help. Pilot Hayward brought the vessel in to her anchorage about 7 p.m. It transpires that when the Clan liner reached a point about 400 miles off Farewell Spit, it was found that the intermediate shaft had been considerably damaged. This occurred on Tuesday last, and temporary repairs were immediately put in hand. Captain Swauston, "the officers, engineers, and all hands, set to work, until by Thursday they had straightened matters 6oinewhat. The shaft was buckled badly, and some of the bearings were knocked out of alignment, bub when a turn was taken out of the engines they did their work fairly satisfactorily. The captain having decided to make for Wellington, the vessel steamed for this port at • a speed of about live knots. Luckily, fine weather was experienced from the time ot the mishap until port was reached. The vessel berthed to-day at the Railway Wharf, where repairs will be made to the machinery.