OIL BOAT DAMAGED
LEAKING SLIGHTLY. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) BRISBANE, January 26. The steamer Havre arrived at Townsville leaking slightly, but the water was easily kept under by the pumps. Captain May states that the vessel grounded on King Island, when she was going at about ten knots. She was refloated without assistance twelve hours later The Havre is a steel screw vessel of 2,073 tons, and was built in 1905 by W. Gray and Co., West Hartlepool, for the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, Ltd.
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Southland Times, Issue 19460, 27 January 1925, Page 5
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