SCHOONER SPRINGS A LEAK
PUTS INTO AUCKLAND. ' j By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, May 19. The American four-masted schooner Komi, bound from Newcastle to Hawaiiti Islands, put into port to-day leaking badly. The sailer left Newcastle on April 29 with a cargo of coal. She ran into a south-easterly gale on May 9, which increased to hurricane strength the next day,' causing the vessel to spring a leak. The water was making at about a foot an hour. The same afternoon the trcw demanded that the vessel l>o 'tested and headed to tho nearest port, as they con\ sidered that she would' be luiable to reach her destination. Captain Hansen promised that if the leak did not dccreaso when the weather moderated, he would make'for a New Zealand port.' Next day tho Kona continued to make water, and tho crew, including the officers, refused duty' Unless .the I 'vessel was taken to the nearest port. . She had twenty feet of water in the hold on arrival here.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2776, 20 May 1916, Page 6
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166SCHOONER SPRINGS A LEAK Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2776, 20 May 1916, Page 6
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