VERY LUCKY SHIP

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 77, 10 March 1931, Page 6

VERY LUCKY SHIP

DAMAGE TO THE HAtfRAKI THE MISHAP AT NEW PLYMOUTH AUCKLAND, March 9. The opinion that the Hauraki was a very lucky ship to have escaped the disaster when she grounded at New Plymouth on February 21, was expressed at Calliope Dock when the docking of the -ssel made possible an accurate survey of the damage. When the bottom of the vessel became exposed to view the story of what occurred when she grounded at New Plymouth could easily be reconstructed. Her bottom touched on the starboard side near the bows, and was scraped for a distance of 00 feet. As sin' went forward again she touched in sex eral places amidships and finally -lie touched and scraped again for about 50 feet well aft on the port side. The first point of impact is marked by a rent about three feet long and six inches or eight inches wide torn in one of the plates. Astern of this the plates are dented in a long groove, extending about ■OO . feet in length and affecting a width of 15 feet. Many plates are dented amidships and several at the stern are holed as well as dented. Appearances are that the necessary work of repair will occupy about , a fortnight. ■ , ...