MISHAP TO STEAMER.
PROPELLER BLADE CAST.
MAORI LATE AT LYTTELTON.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT
CHBISTCHUKCH, Friday.
When crossing Cook Strait at nine o'clock last e'vening the ferry steamer Maori' cast a blade of her starboard propeller. Wireless advice of the mishap was received by the Union Company at 11.30 p.m., with a request that a tug be secured to assist the berthing when the vessel reached port.
The weather was fine and the loss of the blade did not make a great deal of difference to the vessel's speed, although she was about an hour late in berthing at Lyttelton. She was docked at 11 a.m. and was repaired in time to sail as usual this evening.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 12
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117MISHAP TO STEAMER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 12
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