EXPLOSION AT SEA
ON COASTAL STEAMER TAINUI
EIGHT LIVES LOST
ONLY ONE SURVIVOR
VESSEL A BURNING WRECK
ij Teleerapn—Preoß AiioclMlob Christchurch, September 18. News has been received from Cheviot that the coastal steamer Tainui, 128 tons, which loaded a cargo of benzine at Lyttelton yesterday for Wanganui, was beached at 2 o'clock this morning, on fire, in Gore Bay, off tho Wairau Rivoi. She was owned by the. New.Zealand Kofrigerating Company. There was a crew of nine. The master was Captain J. C. Cowan, of Wanganui. The steamer is a conioleto wreck. . Eight lives have been lo.nt, only one member' of the crew, the cook, being saved. The .following are the names of lbs crew:— < Master.—J. C. Cowan, Wanganui. Mate.—W.. H. Stevens. Wanganui. Engineer.—E. Greenwood.. Wellington. Firemen.—A. Fuller, AV. Townsend, Wellington. Sailors.-C. Williams, D. M'Lean, J. Howard, Lyttelton. Cook— W. Farrand, Wanganui.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 302, 17 September 1919, Page 7
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142EXPLOSION AT SEA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 302, 17 September 1919, Page 7
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