WHALER GOES ASHORE AT STEWART ISLAND
(Per* Press Association.) INVEECAEGILL, Last Night. A message was received from Half Moon Bay (Stewart Island) late tonight that the C. A. Larsen, 17,000fon mother ship of the Boss Sea whaling fleet, went ashore between Faro Island and the neck of Stewart Island while proceeding up Paterson’s Inlet to her base at Price’s Bay. She has just returned from a three months’ whaling expedition in the Eoss Sea and is carrying over 80,000 barrels of whale oil of an estimated value of £1,000,000. It is understood the steering gear failed when a strong tide carried the vessel inshore. She struck a rock which tore a hole in numbers 10, 11, and 12 tanks forward. Five chasers went to her assistance and towed the boat up the Inlet, stern first, tho C. A. Larson having a heavy list and filling rapidly, her bows being almost flush with the sea and stern high from tho water. The cargo will have to be transhipped and it is stated that she will bo unable to return to Norway this year. Towing operations arc still in progress,
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6539, 22 February 1928, Page 7
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188WHALER GOES ASHORE AT STEWART ISLAND Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6539, 22 February 1928, Page 7
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