HAWERA WRECKED

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8264, 29 October 1912, Page 11

HAWERA WRECKED

Advice was received in Wellington yesterday that the South Taranaki Shipping Company’s steamer Hawera, which wont ashore near Patea on Saturday morning, is a total wreck. The vessel’s boiler and engines will be removed, but her hull is said to .be damaged beyond repair. Some of the vessel’s cargo is floating up the Patea river. The Mana, which left Wellington last evening for Patea, took some salvage gear and carpenters, who are proceeding to the scene of the wreck. It transpires that the Hawera struck the eastern wall while endeavoring to enter Patea. Captain Jackson then backed his vessel out, but the south-westerly wind and sea took charge of the boat and carried her on to the beach. The Hawera lies to the eastern wall. Jler stem is broken, bulwarks and decks smashed, and she has settled into the sand. She had about 10 Oton of cargo, of which 00 tons was produce from south. The latter is buried in the sand. The Hawera isa wooden vessel ot 174 tons gross, built about the end ot last, year by Mr W. H. Brown at Auckland. Her principal dimensions are—Length 112 ft, beam 20ft, depth Bft 6in. The engines which, are of the compound type, were manufactured by Fraser and Sons, of Auckland. Owing to the narrowness of the entrance and the strong set Patea is considered a difficult port to work. Only a few years ago the new coastal steamAotea met her doom under somewhat similar circumstances on the beach near /?atea.