VESSEL BREAKS DOWN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21113, 22 February 1932, Page 10

VESSEL BREAKS DOWN.

MISHAP TO THE ARGUS. BEING TOWED TO PORT. NATURE OF OCCIDENT UNKNOWN. [BY TELEGRAPH. —I'REPS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Sunday. The Holm Shipping Company's new motor-ship Argus, which called at Napier on, Friday for supplies, on route from Papeete to Wellington, has broken down and is-being towed to Wellington by the Gabriella. The Argus left Napier at 5.20 p.m. on Friday for Wellington. Between 9 and 10 p.m. on Saturday the Pakura, bound from Gisborno to Wellington, passed the Argus in.tow of the Gabriella, 10 miles north of Castlepoiut. Neither the Argus nor Gabriella is fitted with wireless. The Gabriella morsed a request to the Pnkura to radio to Wellington reporting that the Argus had broken down and that the Gabriella was towing her to Wellington. 1 lie Pakuia could not get Wellington and came on to port, when Captain Miles reported the position to Captain Holm. Captain Holm late this afternoon telephoned the keeper of the Lape Pallisei lighthouse, but be had seen no sign of the two ships. It is not considered that they will reach Wellington before to-morrow morning. The nature of the breakdown is unknown. The Argus, which is a vessel of 430 ton? gross, has been brought to New Zealand to replace the Progress, lost at Ohiro Bay last May. She was purchased in Penzance and has been on the high seas on her voyage to New Zealand since September. The Gabriella, a steamer of 1587 gross tonnage, is engaged in the intercolonial cargo trade and is owned by the Union Steam Ship Company, Ltd. She left Wellington on Friday for Gisborne to completo unloading coal and timber from Australia.