EUNICE DAMAGED.
nffir —■ ~~ ENTERING WANGANUI HARBOUR VESSEL BADLY DAMAGED (Per Press Association.) WANGANUI, September 26. Tlie New Zealand Refrigerating Society's auxiliary scow Eunice, bound from Wellington to Wanganui, with a. cargo of barrels of tar, struck on the south mole while entering the river this afternoon. Captain Holm and the crew abandoned the vessel and landed safely. Subsequently the vessel was drawn up on the south spit beach and t now lies in an exposed position close to the shore. From the amount of wreckage drifting up on the beach it is evident that the vessel is badly damaged and prospects of refloating her are problematical, A survey of the vessel will be made at low tide to-morrow. At the time of the mishap (he weather conditions wore fiormal. The Eunice left Wellington on Saturday last, and was delayed with bad weather in Cook Strait.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1917, Page 7
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