Disabled Collier In No Danger’
(New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 26. “I was no more worried on this occasion than I have been on other occasions,” the master of the Union Steam Ship Company’s collier Kaiapoi, Captain R. H, Stewart, said in New Plymouth yesterday.
The 3069-ton vessel limped into port on Friday night after an engine had broken down in heavy seas off Cape Egmont. Captain Stewart said the Kaiapoi had been in no danger, although she had rolled heavily in the storm-lashed seas. He said she lost steerage way after a blockage in the lubricating system of one engine. Instead of facing into the sea, the Kaiapoi was lying beam on to the waves. Water washed the afterdeck and entered the No. 3 hatch, causing the vessel to list 15 degrees. Captain Stewart said that although the ship was hove to for 10 hours, no call for help was sent out and other vessels in the vicinity were asked to stand by only as a precaution.
A New Plymouth engineering firm checked the engines yesterday. Captain Stewart thought he would probably sail tomorrow. The Kaiapoi has a complement of 29—11 officers and a crew of 18.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 3
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200Disabled Collier In No Danger’ Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 3
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