THE STEAM PERTHSHIRE
MACHINERY DISABLED. By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. • Brasroß Ay res, September 13. Th:@ steamer Perthshire has arrived here with her machinery disabled. She is'being surveyed. The Perthshire is th» well-known steamer of the Shire line, which had a very sensational experience in the J?asman Sea in 1899, when she broke her tail shaft. The accident occurred on April 27, when the steamer was on th& passage from Sydney to the Bluff, and it was not until June 18 that she was towed iito Sydney. On her present; voyage the steamer is bound from Capetown to the River Plate, having left? the South, African port on August 19,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 12661, 15 September 1904, Page 5
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108THE STEAM PERTHSHIRE New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 12661, 15 September 1904, Page 5
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