PORT KEMBLA MISHAP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19384, 20 July 1926, Page 10

PORT KEMBLA MISHAP.

STEAMER NOT REFLOATED. * _ 4 CARGO CONSIDERED LOST. DRAPERY FOR DOMINION. VESSEL'S POSITION PRECARIOUS. ' ♦ [B\* TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDDT, Monday. According to a cablegram received in Dunedin to-day the Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Kembla is in a precarious position on San Salvador Island, off the coast of Florida. A message received by the manager of the D.S.A., Ltd., from London was as follows:—"Lloyd's bulletin regarding the Port Kembla is gloomy. Consider the cargo practically lost." The Port Kembla's cargo included a large consignment of new season's drapery goods for the D.S.A. It was reported toward the end of last week that the Port Kembla was badly damaged. It is known that private cablegrams received stated that the vessel was making -water iff " Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5 holds. At that time coal was being jettisoned in order to lighten the steamer, with the object of towing her off. Information received by the local agents, Messrs. J. W. Swift and Company, from the Wellington office of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line clearly indicates that the Port Kembla has not been refloated. The message stated that the London principals of the company hope to be in a position to cable the fullest advice early this week regarding the salvage operations.