PORT ELLIOT—CREW INTERVIEWED
A Wellington message states that a member of the Port Elliot s erew was interviewed, and said l-aat the nature of' the shore was'such, that it seemed mo=l hazardous to try to get ashore, unless the'breaking up of. the ship made it compulsion-. ■ The truiistV- to the ‘Tutaneka'i and t’Orl Victor, howerer, was accomplished with little diiliculty in spile of the exhaustion pf all. He expressed the (pinion that the salvage of the ship, was quite impossible. While aboard lie feared that she would break in half. Sounds of bioaking enforced this fear. The men were provided with accommodation ou, arrival. All anucared m excellent spirits. . , , , , ~ . , Captain Fhmkctt (Lloyd’s surveyor) left Auckland by the Araivura at noon to-day for the scone of the wreck. Ho said ho could express no opinion as to the possibilities of salvage. Ho had failed to get. into communication with tho Port Elliot, owing to the.breakdown of her viroless.
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Evening Star, Issue 18532, 15 January 1924, Page 10
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157PORT ELLIOT—CREW INTERVIEWED Evening Star, Issue 18532, 15 January 1924, Page 10
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