S.S. LILY SKINS.
;"'. ; i PFP. : vTHOBOTpN-;ESPi;^jilJE.J\v.-. ■ /Yesterday afternoon the small steamer Lily sank at her ; mo6rings off the Thorn- . don Esplanade. Some time back she was : pnrchased by Captain White,' stevedore,;, of Wellington, from, the Anchor Shippingand Foundry Company, Ltd., and,: for tho last three or four years,. has been at anchor in' iWellington Harbour.' V .5 . ■Captain White, it is. understood, visited] : the vessel on Saturday last, : and-found': everything safe, but .yesterday, he received : information to the effect-that : the lily' was sinking. He secuted'a launch, and ' proceeded out to the sinking vessel, but, when he arrived there,:he- found her., decks awash. A line itas made fast, and... an effort made to' beach her, and she is lying with, her' decks awash , about fifty': yards out from the' , Esplanade."', It is Surmised that the "recent; heavy weather" had affected the little"craft, and sheJhaj, sprung a leak. ~^^^J; ; ; r : :.'"■-•'
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1063, 28 February 1911, Page 4
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148S.S. LILY SKINS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1063, 28 February 1911, Page 4
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