THE C. A. LARSEN
PORT CHALMERS REACHED GOOD SALVAGE WOKK (Tor Press Association.) MTNEDIN, last night. Crippled, the C, A. Lnrscn, the mother ship of the Norwegian whaling fleet opera ting in the Ross Sea dependency, limped into Port Chalmers under her own steam early this afternoon. She is a floating wreck and one of the miracle salvages of the sea. On Tuesday or Wednesday next the ('. A. I,arson will go info the Otago dock, which has been. especially lengthened to take her. Whether tho vessel will go to Norway for permanent repairs is indefinite until a complete survey is made, but it is really improvable that, the vessel will leave Port Chalmers until she is completely overhauled.
Inside the holds along the starboard side, she is a mass of tangled ■steel frames and bulkheads. The C. A. Larsen is considered to be a miracle of salvage. When she bumped along the Faro Rock reef at Stewart Island great indentations were made in the hull, one alone measuring 12ft. by Oft. Further, the bulkheads were set up, allowing the water to run from one tank to another.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 14 April 1928, Page 14
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