MISHAP TO A STEAMER.
WELLINGTON, January 4. The Blackball Company's collier Ngahere, while bound from Grcymouth to Wellington, grounded lightly during a thick fog off Sinclair Head. The vessel was steaming dead slow at the time. Captain Dillner, while endeavouring to pick up Pencarrow light, saw a light which he believed to bo Pencarrow, and steered accordingly, but he kept the vessel's speed at dead slow. A few minutes later rocks were seen ahead, which were recognised as being off Sinclair Head. While backing out the ship touched a rock aft, but as she made no water the captain stood out, and the vessel reached port without further incident.
The light which the ship's officers mistook for Pencarrow was a fire on the hill near Sinclair Head.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3330, 9 January 1918, Page 48
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