REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.
FREIGHTER’S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. PLOUGHS THROUGH A PIER. United Press Assn.— Elec. Tel. Copyright MELBOURNE. May 2. In one of the most remarkable shipping accidents in Victoria for many years the coastal freighter Aroona escaped undamaged after ploughing right through a pier at Williamstown, near Port Melbourne, late last night. A length of about 2500 square feet of the pier was completely demolished, leaving the shore end isolated. The damage is estimated at £SOOO.
Tiie cause of the accident is believed to have been the failure of the Aroona s steering gear.
Hundreds of huge logs, piles and planks from the wrecked portion of the pter floated across to the opposite side of the bay—a distance of eight miles —to-day, constituting a danger to shipping.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20184, 3 May 1937, Page 7
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