S.S. TASMANIA

Otago Witness, Issue 3556, 9 May 1922, Page 30

S.S. TASMANIA

WILL GO INTO DOCK. CARGO TO BE UNLOADED. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s cargo steamer Tasmania which was damaged while entering the Bluff Harbour last week, arrived at Port Chalmers on Sunday to be docked for repairs. The vessel grounded when nearing the Bluff wharf on a falling tide in the morning, and was floated off on the flowing tide in the afternoon. The extent of the damage has not been fully ascertained, and will not be known until the steamer is examined in dry dock. Her bottom plating has been pierced in No. 3 tank, or double bottom, but die inner plating is intact, and the pumps, it is understood, are successfully coping with the leakage. On arrival at Port. Chalmers her draught was 18ft sin forward and 22ft 3iri aft. She has on board between four and five thousand tons of cargo, most of which consists of ore concentrates shipped in Australia. A considerable quantity of this cargo will have to be discharged before the •Tasmania can go into dry dock. The Union Company’s cargo steamer Kaimanawa, which has been on the idle list at Port Chalmers for some time, will be hauled alongside the Tasmania and the cargo transferred to the Kaimanawa’s holds. The Tasmania, which is an ex-German steamer, was built in Flensburg in 1913. Her dimer-ions are: Length 482.2 ft, breadth 62.7 ft, depth of hold 29.4 ft. Her tonnage is 7609 gross and 4904 net.