SALVAGE OF TUG.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 23. Salvage operations on the tug To Awliina met with a setback this morning when the vessel slipped back 30ft off the mud bank after having been moved further inshore on the rising tide. Salvage work has been suspended until a channel lias been dredged through the mud bank. So far it has been impossible to inspect the tug’s hull for the damage caused when the vessel fouled the 'starboard propeller of the Essex. To refloat the Te Awhina the damaged portion of the hull will be covered with a collision mat.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 227, 24 August 1938, Page 7
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100SALVAGE OF TUG. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 227, 24 August 1938, Page 7
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