FIRES ON VESSELS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14480, 15 December 1917, Page 8

FIRES ON VESSELS

— ■ I . ■ A ]3APvQUE.NTiNEi SU^K AT LYT-tHLTO^.-WnABT*. (Per Press Associntidn;) " • OfißlSTOitr'KClf ■ last night; A three-masted wubckn ( bai-qiietiiine, which arrived m Xe\P'Ztjafiffitl '•• Raters seme time ri^o iyom aiiovefso.a port with a large cargo ot 1 benzine', petrol, kerosene, and otiher oils, caiujht -fire, at herberth m LyfcteltOh. this riioinihg, a-ml ■ had to be sunk alongside the wharf. Fortunately, her cargo had been unshipped. &he is a stoutly-built, vessel of 991 tons, built 40 .years ago. .Sho cariifeb a masker, two mates, . a. carpenter; six ablebodied seajnenj and a <?<?ok. - • | At the outbreak of the. war the- vessel ' was used as a barge mn'tdae^lasJi&n. ore tiade, but, of .course, the grea-ti dem&nd for ships increased , 'her. value consider- ! ably, and once anoreVfhe brought into the blue -ftatei'. service,- \aiiid she •■was chartered by the Vacuum Oil, Company. j By 10.20 •a.m. a. great quantity of 'smoke yas rolling put of the ship, but the good work df v the &odn told. The large ■distliftrgingvpip'e <of the ' ■dredger" Canterbury poured ei-eat Ijuanti l ties of water into, the baicjueiitine'» hold; and' this. end 'the- "loads 0.f7 water from < tile dredge: 'Tewlufeac.made the burning vessel sink ; .l&w%i i sdid 'lower m the water.. Grad uallfcf. the; «: vessel) listed, ' a.nd eventually, sank in-.53-teed-d£' water. The vessel is. neld. to thei; jetty .b.y wireropes, and i^ in 3 an, upright 'ftbsjrtibn:.' j All the vessel's papers '.'have- . been saved, • ' / ; --i- '• ■ ■;; ■ ' .'■.■;■. . /;• Apparently, the fire,- fltarifed 1 -m -the • middle hold. , IP *$ i belie\;ecL' : ' ihait, thanks^ to the of;-. ballast 5 ! m 'her, and the thickness >/.of / 'hfcte tijfllbeiv ing, the TesseTs. ..hoick'-, ist ?ioti- greatly damaged, and ttja.it. , sfcs eah;?be' 'safely refloated and pepaired^ithout any extraordinary d egree, of trouble,. V ■' . "^LJ^ T G^O>T3 .^ast; Jiigbt. Fire was discovered early ; this morning iii a vessel's ( ''bunlcetsV but was extinguished "by the "officers find/crew' after an hour amfe afoalf ,-, of ..sti^twous Work.