LIMPING ALONG

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17238, 19 April 1930, Page 15

LIMPING ALONG

SHIP'S LONG VOYAGE ENGINES OUT OF ORDER Fifty-five limping days at sea tried the patience of all hands aboard the steamer Canadian Commander, which arrived at Auckland from Halifax on Thursday. Engine trouble repeatedly delayed her on the voyage, and she was a week later than expected. Leaving Halifax on March 3, the Canadian Commander took 12 days to Panama. In the Pacific the engines began to give trouble, the exact nature of which is not revealed, but which was serious enough to bring the steamer to a standstill. Although the engineers did their best to rectify the trouble, the vessel had to stop for a few hours every two or three days to allow them to "tinker with the works." All hands got a bad fright one morning> when the condenser water tank on the' boat deck burst with a terrific report. Thinking that it could be nothing less than the bottom falling out of the ship, the watch below tumbled up on deck quicker than they had ever done in their lives before. Fortunately no one was in the road of the flying metal and spouting water, and no one took it seriously save the engineers, who had an extra job on their hands.