SHIP AGROUND

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 123, 22 February 1928, Page 11

SHIP AGROUND

C. A. LARSEN STRANDED REPORTED TO BE LEAKING BADLY The postmaster at Half-muon Bay forwarded the following advice to the Post Office at Wellington last night:—“The C. A. Larsen, oni of the mother ships of the Ross Sea whaling fleet, grounded at the entrance to Paterson Inlet at 6 o’clock tonight, and is leaking badly in three tanks.” The C. A. Larsen paid a visit to Wellington on April 5 of last year, when she arrived from Paterson Inlet, loaded with oil, and left here on April 7 for San Pedro, en route to New York. She attracted a good deal of attention owing to the doorway in her bows through which the dead whales are hauled up a slipwav on to the ship’s deck. The C. A. Larsen is a steel steamer of 13,246 tons gross, classed 100 Al at Lloyd’s, , and built in 1913 by Swan, Hunter, Wigham and Richardson at Newcastle, England. She was altered in 1918 to adapt her to her work as a mother ship for the whaling fleet. Her principal dimensions are: Length, 527.2 ft.; beam, 66.6 ft.; depth, 33.9 ft. The C. A. Larsen is owned by a Norwegian company, and her port of registry is Sandesjora, Norway. Paterson Inlet is in Stewart Island, across Foveaux Strait from Bluff, and for several seasons past has been used as a base by the Ross Sea whalers.