UNUSUAL ACCIDENT
SHIP PLOUGHS THROUGH PIER. MELBOURNE, Sunday. In one of the most remarkable shipping accidents in Melbourne for many years, the coastal freighter Aroona escaped undamaged after ploughing right through a pier at Williamstown, near Port Melbourne, late on Saturday night. About 2500 square feet -of the pier has been completely demolished, leaving the end of the pier isolated from the shore end. The damage is estimated at £SOOO. The cause is believed to Have been the failure of • the Aroona’s steering gear. Hundreds of huge logs and piles of planks floated .across to the opposite side of the bay, eight miles distant,, today, constituting a danger to shipping.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 May 1937, Page 5
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