Port Bowen Salvage Prospects
f Per Press Association. Copyright .] WANGANUI, This Day. Work on board the stranded Port Bowen yesterday was being concentrated in an endeavour to raise steam. The forward boilers are out of action, but those aft are stated to be intact. Flexible pipes are being transferred to the ship to take the place of those which were fractured when the steamer received a severe buffeting on Saturday night and Sunday, when she was hard and fast on the sandbank on which she first stranded.
Captain Gregory, marine superintendent of the Port Line, reports that the cargo of frozen meat is keeping well, and the temperature in the holds where the meat is stored has only risen one degree, and there is a possibility of the whole cargo being saved.
If steam can be raised, in the event of the Port Bowen being towed oil, site will be taken direct to Wellington.
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Northern Advocate, 28 July 1939, Page 6
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154Port Bowen Salvage Prospects Northern Advocate, 28 July 1939, Page 6
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