STRUCK ICEBERG.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 219, 13 August 1927, Page 9

STRUCK ICEBERG.

ILL-FATED MAMARI. SURVEYOR’S REPORT. DRYDOCKING IMPROBABLE. Received August 13, 10.10 a.m. BUENOS AYRES, Aug. 12. The surveyor’s preliminary report states that the Mamari’s lower plates starboard and port are crumpled. All the holds are dry and it is probable that dry docking will not be necessary, as temporary repairs can be effected in ten days.—A. and N.Z. cable. Tho Mamari, is a stool twin-scrow steamer of 8114 tons, owned by tho. Shaw Savill and Albion Lino, loaded refrigerated and general cargo at Oamaru, Timaru, Now Plymouth and Wellington, and sailed from Wellington on July 19 for London, via Montovideo and Teneriffo. Sho has no passengers aboard. Tho locality tho Mamari had reached when sho recently collided with an iceberg is about 250 miles north-west of the Falkland Islands, and about 540 miles from tho South American coast. Bahia Blanca, for which tho Mamari made, is about 720 miles north-west of where tho accident occurred, and 400 miles south of Montevideo. Tho Mamari had a sensational accident at Auckland on November 27, 1906, when she moved forward on the blocks in tho Callopo Dock, with the rseult that 50 men were swept into the water, two being killed and 30 others injured. The vessel had been docked early in tho morning and about 50 men wero engaged scrubbing and cleaning the hull as tho water was being pumped out of tho dock. At tho time of the accident some of the men were on punts and others were standing on tho steps of the deck. Tho Mamari, which had been shored up, suddenly moved forward, causing a great surge of water, and practically all the men employed were lifted up by the waves and swirled round in the water, many of them being injured by piccos of timber.