WORKMEN IN PERIL.
SHIP OUT OF CONTROL. A DRY DOCK SENSATION. A hundred men were in peril in a dry dock of Manchester recently when flood water in the Manchester Ship Canal carried away a 5000-ton steamer. The steamer Haliartus was outward bound attached to tugs. She was caught by a sudden rush of flood water, and, despite the tugs, was swept against two barges near the entrance to the Manchester Dry Dock Company's graving dock and crashed against a wooden jotty. The barges sank almost immediately. A Norwegian named Hermonson, in charge of the barges, was in one of them, but was able to jump on the wharf as the crash occurred. The Haliartus then crashed into and seriously damaged the gates of No. 2 graving dock, which at the time was dry, and had in it a ship undergoing repairThe fate of the men working-at the bottom of the dry dock hung in the balance, but the dock gates held against the impact of the vessel. But for the baiges, which acted as a fender. andjeakened the impact, the vessel would have wreckea the gates and the men would have been engulfed in the wat«r.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19896, 15 March 1928, Page 11
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197WORKMEN IN PERIL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19896, 15 March 1928, Page 11
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