THE ALEX A SAFE.
WARPED OFF "THE HARD."
(By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) • Wanganui, December 15. ' The barqueutino Alexa was floated of? the South Spit at high water last night, and, shortly afterwards, was berthed at the Town Wharf but little the worse for her mishap. Some of tho rigging was chafed and cut, and a few of her pjates of. tho bulwarks were bent, but this is practically all the damage, and the hull has not suffered in the !®ast.
fine work was performed bv Captain -White and his crew, and by Captain Connor 'and tho crew of tho lighter Thistle, in getting tho ship off. A heavy anchor was dropped to seaward with a wire hawser attached, this being done in tho midst of a nasty, lumpy sea, the operation taking five, hours of hard work. Then a hawser was' made fast to tho Alexa's Winches, and by warping on this (with tho assistance oi uie .m.i the Harbour Board's tug, Togo) tho vessel was hauled off as soon-as the rising tide began to-lift her. The amount of damage done to the breakwater staging, whore tlifc vessel bumped it ou first grounding, is estimated at about .£2OO. . ,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1001, 16 December 1910, Page 6
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197THE ALEX A SAFE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1001, 16 December 1910, Page 6
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