ANCHORS DRAGGED
LINER NEAR ROCKS . GALE AT GISBORNE .-■( By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' ! ' GISBORNE. This Day. ' During a strong westerly gale yesterday afternoon the overseas linei Port fcowen dragged her anchors and drifted broadside on to within a shorl distance of the rocks running out froir the Kaiti Beach. . By a fortunate circumstances th« Harbourmaster, Captain A. Carson was in the roadstead aboard the pile launch, which was proceeding to mee another liner, the Cornwall, and h( boarded the Port Bowen without de lay and managed to check the drif just at a time when the situation wa: beginning to look dangerous.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 10
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