FIRE DAMAGE
REPAIRS AT PORT OF OTAGO BANK LINE SHIP Fire damage on the Bank Line steamer Forthbank will be repaired at the Port of Otago. At present at Lyttelton and due at Ravensbourne on Thursday, the Forthbank caught fire on her outward voyage from New Zealand to Makatea and an accommodation section adjacent to the engine room was extensively damaged. Repair work on the steamer, which will begin immediately she arrives at Ravensbourne, is expected to take about a fortnight to three weeks to complete. Unloading operations will proceed normally and after discharging 3800 tons of phosphate at Ravensbourne and 1800 at Dunedin, the vessel will go to Port Chalmers where she will enter the Otago dock. Few details about the fire were obtainable in Dunedin yesterday but it is understood that it was confined to one portion of the ship and. nobody was injured. The Forthbank, which has a gross tonage of 5057, visited Dunedin early in March of this year and since then has made several voyages bringing phosphate to this country from Nauru Island and Makatea.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26822, 13 July 1948, Page 4
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180FIRE DAMAGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 26822, 13 July 1948, Page 4
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