WILL BE DOCKED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 301, 19 December 1931, Page 1

WILL BE DOCKED.

Breeze Did Not Suffer Much Damage. CARGO IN DRY CONDITION. From information that could be gathered at Lyttelton this morning, it appears that the Canterbury Steamship Company’s steamer Breeze, which went ashore at Port Robinson yesterday morning, was lucky in escaping with very little damage. The full extent of it is not yet known, and will not be known until the steamer is drydocked at Lyttelton on Monday. Judging from the little water she was making this morning, it is believed that she suffered very slightly. The vessel.discharged her cargo this morning in a dry condition. From the wake made by the Breeze on the way to Lyttelton from Port Robinson it appeared as if one of the vessel’s rolling chocks had been partly ripped off. Damage to the Storm. The Storm seems to have fared very much worse than the Breeze. She was placed in dry dock yesterday along with the same company’s vessel, Calm. Upon examination it was found that she had one plate perforated on the port side near the bow. The rolling chock had been pressed into her ribs, and several plates along the port side were badly dented. The rivets on a number of the plates had been sheared off. So far as can be ascertained, the Storm struck an object south of Akaroa, but of what kind and in what position is not known. It was reported at Lyttelton last evening that the master of the ferry boat Wahine, and the master of the Storm, both found on Thursday night that owing to the strong northerly set of the tide, their vessels were nine to ten miles north of the position which they were expected to be in. The fog was no doubt one of the heaviest experienced for a considerable time. (Earlier reports appear on Page SO.)