TRAWLER SINKS ON EAR

Evening Star, Issue 25170, 9 May 1944, Page 8

TRAWLER SINKS ON EAR

SPRINGS A LEAK (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 8. The trawler Mary Ellen is a total wreck off Paremata as the result- of springing a leak and sinking on the bar while entering Porirua Harbour at the week-end. The crew of three was rescued without difficult by Mi Arthur Hunter, in his fishing launch. The master and owner of the trawler, Mr R. A.. Roderique. lose furniture and household effeclis which he had stored on board pending securing a house in Wellington, where, with his ship, he came two months ago from Westport. Heavy rain was falling, and there was a fair sea running when the Mary Ellen', which had been fishing off Kapiti, made for Porirua Harbour. She began to fill rapidly, and scon sank oh the bar. Mr J. T. McManaway, in his trawler Silver Spray, and Mr O. McManaway, in the Teresa, tried unsuccessfully in difficult conditions to tow the Mary Ellen off the bar. Sixty ca-ses of fish on board were jettisoned, and as it was washed up on the beach Paremata and Plimmerton residents had more fresh fish free of cost than has been the good fortune of most people in New Zealand for a long time. Only the mast of the Mary Ellen was above water to-night, Her dimensions are as follows:—Length, 48ft; beam, lift; depth, sft sin; gross tonnage, 13 tons; net tonnage, 9 tens Bcwt; horse-power of engines, 40.