LIGHTER SINKS
Cargo Of Logs Lost (N.Z.P.A.) AUCKLAND. April 18. While being towed to Auckland from Mercury Bay with a load of logs the lighter Combine, owned by Winstone, Ltd., sank in 27 fathoms of water near Kennedy Bay on Coromandel Peninsula about 5 o'clock this morning. No one was aboard the Combine, an old converted scow, when she foundered. The tow started at midnight in favourable weather. As the Combine went down she was cut adrift from the towing launch. It is presumed a knot in one of the logs forced its way through the Combine’s deck and caused her to leak. The Combine sank suddenly with the logs securely fastened to her deck with wires.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23181, 20 April 1945, Page 4
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117LIGHTER SINKS Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23181, 20 April 1945, Page 4
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