WAITOMO DISABLED
TAILSHAFT BP/)KEN (Per Press Association,) WFLLINGTt>'N, ' last night. The head office of the Union Steam Ship Co. received a wireless message to-day from Captain Jauimy, of the company's collier Waitomo, en route from, Newcastle to the Bluff, slating that the vessel was disabled with a broken tailshaft at a point about 409 miles north of Westport. The Kaitoke, also a collier, will leave Westport early to-morrow morning and on picking np'the Waitomo will low her to Auckland for repairs in dock. The Waitomo is a single screw steel vessel of 2719 tons net register, her dimensions being: Length 380 ft, beam 48l't, and depth 29ft. She was built in 1911 by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Co". Ltd.. Newcastle, England, and is "fitted with three-cylinder triple-ex-pansion engines. The vessel Jeft Newcastle on July 19. and was to have arrived at Bluff to-day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16705, 24 July 1928, Page 5
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142WAITOMO DISABLED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16705, 24 July 1928, Page 5
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