THE WRECK OF THE PENGUIN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 12810, 30 March 1916, Page 8

THE WRECK OF THE PENGUIN.

[ Per Press Association. ■ ' Wellington,. March 29- - Captain Post roports to the Marine Department- that while the Tutanekai was .dragging recently for the cable in Cook Strait she hooked some obstruction,.' which he believes was the *Peneuin wreck. "The bottom in the localityis fine shingle, and daring all the years he has worked Strait he has never bad such an experience. It was impossible to lift tho obstruction from the bottom. - The grapnel, which had a breaching strain of thirty tons, carried away and-was.lost, with the grapnel and chain. The angle of the Tutanekai at the time was a right angle. S6deg 30min, with Karori as the centre. and Terawhiti on the extreme left at an angle of 32deg 40mi!i to the Brothers. The depth of writer was 60 fathom?.