WHY THE STORM STRANDED.
-When entering- the harbour on Tuesday the Storm ran aground opposite the lower en dof the Castlocliff wharf. - ■ -' . We. rang tip the pilot/station last evening, and in response to our inquiry as to how the accident happened, Captain Connor, the Assistant -pilot, said that the Storm'had come into port two hours after high water. She intended to berth at theGastlecliff whsm-i otherwise., as she was drawing lift 6in, and tho"tides were very low, she would not.have been admitted. ■ The tide wao rimning out fastj -dilj|; ' fcne JSiprm kept M&g-wt from tn ; o^|i?rf;:!^b;iar that '$80 grqunded on W^««^-t''^ Tl^ IT.jUM&fofoVii ®>item4ni<;% efrmteeK b^i F7MiilwSrd, lo^al <& ths Storm; who in response, to .a" telephone ! inquiry stated that, the grounding ox the vessel was due entirely to the fact I that she was^ considerably out of the -channel. Mr Mill ward- eaid -he liad been down to see for.himself, and in his opinion the Storm was two lengths out of the channel.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 30 April 1913, Page 8
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