BROKE DOWN AT SEA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1077, 15 September 1930, Page 14

BROKE DOWN AT SEA

TANKER DISABLED FOR SEVEN WEEKS DELAY AT SAN FRANCISCO The tanker Yurraville, which reached Auckland yesterday afternoon from San Francisco, was delayed at that port for seven weeks for repairs to her engines, which broke down after she left there on June 13. When 460 miles out from San Francisco an accident occurred to one of her cylinders, and she was disabled for a lime. Temporary repairs were effected by the engineers, the work taking them 36 hours, during which time the vessel drifted helplessly. The weather was tine, fortunately, and she did not need to summon the assistance of other ships. When the repair work was comthe Yarraville steamed back to San Francisco, where her cargo of moro than 3.000,000 gallons of oil had to be unloaded before permanent repairs could be done. When the vessel was again ready' for sea she loaded her present cargo of 3,769.000 gallons of oil fuel, of which 1,300,000 will be unloaded at Auckland, and the remainder at Sydney and Brisbane. The Yarraville is owned by the Vacuum Oil Company.