MISHAP TO STEAMER.
THIS ATUA’S STRANDING. tl’er Press Association. 1 AUCKLAND, this day. Details of the mishap to ilie Onion Company’s Alua show that® the vessel cleared Jlega passage and hit hard, lurching heavily. Site kept going with llie momentum and struck again twice with less force. She got again into deep water. Within four minutes there was seven feet of water in No. 2 hold. The captain beached her on good bottom inside the reef. During the night water tame to within a foot of the ’tween decks. About COO tons of sugar had become ruined, ’the diver found a large dent, and hole on bilge. Later tbe steamer was pumped dry and refloated.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15542, 10 June 1921, Page 6
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115MISHAP TO STEAMER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15542, 10 June 1921, Page 6
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