PETROL BARGE ASHORE
STRANDED AT TE KAHA
AMERICAN VESSEL RECOVERED
An American petrol barge, about 100 feet in lengthy and bearing the markings SSSI2G was washed up on the beach about trfree miles from Te Kaha on Sunday. The spot is about 48 miles from Opotiki, and 20 cliains on the Te Kaha side of the Kereru River mouth. The vessel was noticed on Saturday by Mr Harold Drake s drifting some distance off shore, but he took it to be a fishing boat. On Sunday morning the barge was seen stranded on the beach having been washed over rocks, where residents, despite heavy seas succeeded in securing it. The naval authorities, in Auckland who had been keeping a lookout for the barge, which was lost in the Tasman Sea in September when, the tow-line bro'ke. were contacted and a party was sent down to refloat the boat anjd take it in tow back to ba;se. This barge, which is exactly similar to the one washed up at Dargaville recently is one of three which broke away in the Tasman Sea in September. Two have so far been recovered. The. vessel's laden* weight |is 250 tons and its length 100 ft. The cost of one such boat is stated to be about £30^000. The barge which was empty at the time of stranding is the property of the United States.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 41, 19 January 1945, Page 5
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230PETROL BARGE ASHORE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 41, 19 January 1945, Page 5
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