COLLISION AT GLASGOW WHARF
. ,_4 At about 10.30 o'clock on Thursday night, as steamer Gertio (269 tons), from Foxton, was endeavouring to berth at Waterloo Quay, on the city sido of the Glasgow Wharf, Borne furious gusts 'of wind slewed 'her bow* round, when she wa'i about 50 yards from thy qnayp and between 1 thfr'Glnsgow and .Railway Wharves. It'seems that she struck tho Rakaia, which vat moored on the inner side of the Glasgow Wharf. The damage dono wrasistod of the breaking-oft of the Gertie's patent port anchor, and the stoying-in of one of the Rakaia s plates on tho port sido, about Bft. from Yestorday, Messrs. Cablo and Co. y,(jto engaged in ofWing temporary repairs to the Rakaia, but the plate will have to be renewed on tho arrival of tho vessel at london. The acoideiit necessitated the postponement of the departure from to-dav to Monday. » ' .A; preliminary ihqairy : was held yesterday into the oircumsta,nces surrounding the accident,/ Tho inquiry vras conducted by Mr. 0 ,?!(.Colleator of Customs, who lias forwarded the ondenco on to the Marine Department.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 490, 24 April 1909, Page 5
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180COLLISION AT GLASGOW WHARF Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 490, 24 April 1909, Page 5
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