CAPSIZE OF BARGE
TOWING TUG IN DANGER MOTOR-VESSEL TO RESCUE Struck by a succession of heavy seas whole being towed from the quarries on Motutara Island to Warkworth on Thursday, the Public Works Department barge Waiti capsized and was being driven ashore when the motor-vessel Huawai came to the rescue.
The Huawai, which was on the way from Mahurangi to Kawau, arrived when a rising east south-easterly gale was blowing, and both the barge and the towing tug were within UOO yards of the sheer rock cliffs on the coast near the mouth of the Mahurangi River The tug's crew signalled by holding up a rope's end, and after a two-hour struggle the barge was brought to safety in the river. Owing to the anchors fouling the bottom, it had to be anchored in the fairway. The master of the Huawai, Captain E. F. Fowler, then proceeded to Kawau and sent a radio report to the marine superintendent at Auckland to enable vessels to be warned of the obstruction in the fairway. A dinghy which broke away from the Public Works Department's tug was recovered by the Huawai and taken on board.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 10
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