FRENCH WARSHIP ON A REEF
ATTEMPTS TO REFLOAT UNSUCCESSFUL.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, March 11. The' Union Company has received wireless advice that the small Trench warship Kersaint went ashore recently on a reef at Morrea. Island, opposite Papeete Harbour. The mail steamer Paloona, bound from Wellington to San Francisco, was detained at Papeete .assisting in an attempt to tow the Kersaint off. The Flora, loaded with fruit for Auckland, was also detained at Papeete to assist in the salvage work. Latest advices state that attempts to salvage the Kersaint have 50 far been unsuccessful. The Paloona resumed her voyage on March 8, ami the l'lora lelt Papeete on March 9 for Auckland direct. r The Kersaint is a twenty-year-old gunboat of 1200 tons displacement. The vessel is armed-with one 5.5-inch and five 3 9-ioch guns, and has a nominal complement of. 110 men. ' During the early stages of the war the-Kereoint patrolled ths French islands in the South Pacific, and took some part in convoy work. The gunboat'at least once was in perilous proximity to the German Pacific Sciuadron, afterwards destroyed oft the Falkland Island by Admiral Sturdee.J
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 143, 12 March 1919, Page 6
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189FRENCH WARSHIP ON A REEF Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 143, 12 March 1919, Page 6
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