HARBOUR COLLISION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23015, 18 April 1938, Page 8

HARBOUR COLLISION

| DAMAGE TO ACHILLES [ RANGATIRA'S ANCHOR LIFTED PRELIMINARY INQUIRY HELD [BV TELKCEAPH OW>- CORR:-:>PONDE>'T] WELLINGTON, Sunday The oniy damage sustained by H.M.S. Ac-hiiies in the collision with the inter-Uland express steamer Rangatira on Thursday night was confined to the ship's propellers. A surrey of these and of the ship's hull tinder water has been made by her divers. The propellers project well out from the ship's sides aft and the starboard screw was damaged by contact with, the concrete piling of the wharf when the cruiser's stern swung in as she broke adrift. It has not definitely decided : whether the Achilles will be docked at Wellington. She may be able to pro- : ceed to Auckland without doing so. The Achilles and Leander were to have left Wellington on Tuesday for the | Hauraki Gulf, to carry out exercises . for a week before returning to Aucki land on April 28Th e Wellington Harbour Board's | floating crane Hikitia has lifted the Rangatira's 3nchor and 1-5 fathoms of | cable from the harbour bottom. A preliminary inquiry into the ciri cumsitances attending the mishap was held on Saturday morning by the Superintendent of Mercantile Marine, whose report will be forwarded to the Minister of Marine, the Hon. P. Fraser.