RANGATIRA ASHORE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2736, 3 April 1916, Page 5

RANGATIRA ASHORE

ON ROBBEN ISLAND !;/j By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrlgt CRec. Auril 2, 5.5 p.m.) J Cape Town,' April 1.; The Rangatira went ashorei ori-Roj ben Island,' in a heavy fog. "''. •■? ] : h STER'NPOST BROKEN. 'I ATTEMPTS TO REFLOAT HER FAII (Reo. April 2, 11 p.m.) , . ■■! ... Cape Town,, April 2..j Attempts to refloat .the Rangatir were unsuccessful: . The-.vessel;. .is nc making water, and is sheltered from tb south-easterly gale, but the-position-;] dangerous. The sternpost is apparenj Iy broken. ' '- '_ . : - ;■] Surveyors are of opinion that lightened aft she would probably refloaj but the difficulty .is to get lightei alongside, I [Outward bound from London to Ne' Zealand ports, via Cape Town and H< bart, the Shaw-Savill liner Rangatira j a twin screw vessel of 10,118 tons. Sh loft London on February 26 with y&\ proximately 12,000 tons, of cargo for tb four chief New Zealand ports; and wsj due at Auckland about April 27: Th'cr arc- no passengers on board. The:line is one of the most modern of the Horn vessels in the New Zealand trade, ha< ing been afloat but about 6ix years..Caj tain R. D. Lowden is in command.] •'■,■