MISHAP TO LINER.
IN AUCKLAND HARBOUR. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 28. When the liner Mariposa was corning up the harbour this morning a delect developed in her steering gear through a cock blowing out in the pipe. It appeared to the watchers that she was headed straight for rocks at North Head, but she turned round. Her momentum carried her towards Bean Rock, a dangerous rock in the harbour, hut the engines were reversed and steadied her, and she was anchored in the channel. Temporary repairs were effected and she came up to the wharves after a delay of two hours, and berthed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 205, 30 July 1934, Page 2
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104MISHAP TO LINER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 205, 30 July 1934, Page 2
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