The Raising of the “ Pilot.”

Progress, Volume VI, Issue 4, 1 February 1911, Page 535

The Raising of the “ Pilot.”

‘ ■ The mishap to the small harbour steamer is recalled by the illustration on. 1 next page, The boat, for some reason unexplained, sank at the Perry Wharf one night in January, Attempts were made to ■■• pump her dry; while divers endeavoured to patch leaks and dose hatches, But it";was soon found that the very powerful centrifugal pumps of the Harbour Board were incapable of pumping the harbour dry. In other words, ithe patching, and closing operations ►’were a failure. Science thereupon retired in favour of brute force, as represented by a powerful derrick, and the “Pilot ” came up Without further delay. .. . ■; •1 V * - ■< . 5