AFT MOORING LINES SNAP
LINER NEARLY AWN FT AT NEW PLYMOUTH [Per United Press Association.! NKW PLYMOUTH, July 6. Caught by a powerful squall of wind at full tide shortly after 9.30 o’diock last night, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s 10,000-tqn liner Ruahine snapped her mooring lines aft and swung before the force of wind from her berth at Moturoa wharf. The big steamer’s stern slowly turned diagonally across between Moturoa wharf and Newton King wharf. The lines forward held the weight of the vessel, however, and a New Plymouth Harbour Board official rowed to* her stern, picked up a hawser, and carried it back to Moturoa wharf, where it was made fast. ITie winches of the .Ruahine took the strain, and the slow, but steady, swing was stopped. From that point the heavy task of bringing the liner to the wharf by breasting her slowly began, a work which occupied nearly four hours.
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Evening Star, Issue 22383, 6 July 1936, Page 10
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154AFT MOORING LINES SNAP Evening Star, Issue 22383, 6 July 1936, Page 10
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