MAITAI'S PROPELLER AND A BOAT

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1212, 22 August 1911, Page 4

MAITAI'S PROPELLER AND A BOAT

THREE MEN ENDANGERED,

Tamt snip" was the order of tho day on board JUI.S. Maitai at Xo. 0 Queen's Wharf yesterday and while thus engaged threo sailors, who were in a boat under llio stern, got an unexpected bath. It seems that, while the Union Company s lamiliar bronze S r«ii paint, was beDig applied, the engineers were doing soino work on the main engines, which necos-i----ated them being ••turned" occasionally, Invariably in Mich cases, beforo the oilBines are. moved at ail, 0110 of the engineroom stall' is dispatched aft to see "that clour" as regards tho propeller. I Ins, it is understood, was done, but. between the time Mint the man looked over Iho sleni and llio lime that ho reached tho engine-room again the three men in, tho boat had moved .underneath the vessel's counter, close to tho prap-Mier. Then, without warning, one of the blades caught: the side of the boat and dragged it under, and the sailors, at. oik.;' aware of their' risk, jumped into the v,-;iter. Ono swam to the wharl", and tho otlur two v:ero presently rescued oil' the steamer's rudder.

'J'iio Olivines had merely been turned lor a low revolutions, tho speed being necessarily slow, ami estimated at one and a half revolutions a minute. It was fast enough, however. in Mimsli Mik li'ial considerably, and wreckage was flu,-.tin<- about when Hie little adventure ended. ,