SUNK AFTER ALL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 4

SUNK AFTER ALL

STEAMER CAL’ADI AN PLANTER Up till Saturday information as Lo what occurred after the Canadian National Steamships’ Canadian Plantei had been seriously damaged after colliding with the City of Auckland last May was not available (states the Dunedin “Star”). The position was further confused when 16 days later a cablegram announced that the Can adian Planter had arrived at Bostor. in a damaged condition, due to a collision with the City of Auckland. No information as to how the Planter had been brought to Boston could be obtaind. The first cable announcing the collision, which was received on May 3 stated: “The steamer Canadian Planter collided with the British steamer City of Auckland in a fog off Nantucket Sound, and sank almost immediately The crew of 35 of the Canadian Planter was safely taken aboard the City of Auckland, which is not seriously damaged.” Later information was contained in a shipping cablegram, which briefly stated that the Canadian Planter had arrived at Boston in a damaged condition. No further information was received, either by the Pres c or by the agents of the line. No mention, however, was made ol Where the Canadian Planter had been in the intervening 16 days, or of how she obtained a crew to take her to Boston. It was thought after the fog had cleared it was found that the Canadian Planter was still afloat, and some form of temporary repairs had evidently been effected in Nantucket Sound; otherwise there appeared to be no reason to account for the long period between the two messages. At the time of the collision the Canadian Planter was bound from New York to Boston, a passage that would normally have taken about two days. On Saturday morning, however, information was received in Dunedin stating that the Canadian Planter had been sold to Yugoslavian buyers. After the collision the vessel had sunk, but was later raised and sold by the United States marshal on June 1 to Yugoslavian buyers for about £3,900. The Canadian Planter on the voyage had loaded in Australia and completed at Auckland, leaving there on March 19 with a full cargo for discharge at T’ew York, Boston and Halifax.