Collier Battered By Heavy Seas
WELLINGTON. This Day. With all the woodwork on the starboard side, of her bridge carried away, [both lifeboats damaged, several parts broken, and water in her engine and boiler rooms, the collier Kaimai returned to Wellington yesterday afternoon for repairs. m it „ : . „ ; * „ „ 1/ior
The Kaimai is a steamer of 1435 tons, and belongs to the Union Steam Ship Company, though at present it is under charter to the Westport Coai Company. The vessel left Wellington on Wednesday evening for Auckland, but outside the Heads the steamer ran into heavy south-westerly gales, with high seas. Yesterday, Captain Rowlands decided to put back to Wellington. The Kaimai was then near Cape Palliser. and it was while the vessel was turning to steam back that she was caught broadside on by several heavy seas, and damaged. Besides the damage to the bridge and lifeboats, the officers’ saloon and the majority of the cabins were flooded out. He who hesitates is lost. Maximum old, but true; And you must not count the cost When you’re feeling blue. Get to work on cough or cold, Bo a swift pursuer: Rout the hated foeman bold With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 50.
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Northern Advocate, 28 July 1939, Page 10
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