MISHAP TO STEAMER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21579, 25 August 1933, Page 10

MISHAP TO STEAMER

TITOKI AT TAURANGA aground on sandbank EFFORTS TO REFLOAT FAIL [by telegraph OWN' correspondent] TAURANGA, Thursday When the steamer Titoki was entering the port from the south last night she . went aground on a sandbank inside tlio harbour, about opposite the Mount Maunganui workshops. It was high tide at the time and the vessel was unable to get off with her own power. The Northern Company's auxiliary schooner Motu, which arrived from Auckland at nine o'clock this morning, immediately went to the assistance of the Titoki and endeavoured to tow the steamer off the bank, but was unsuccessful. The Motu therefore came on to the'wharf to discharge her cargo. The Titoki has a small load of southern produce for Tauranga and poles and hardwood timber consigned to the Tauranga Electric-Power Board. The poles will be discharged into punts to lighten the vessel and enable her to get off the bank. The Titoki, a twin-screw steamer of 625 tons gross register, was built at Port Glasgow in 1922 for the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company. Until recently she had been engaged in coastal trade between South Island ports and Wellington, but her run has lately been etxended to Gisborne and Tauranga.