STRANDED WHALER
SALVAGING THE LARSEN WORK PROGRESSING RAPIDLY BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION Invercargill, February 28. W’ork on the C. A. Larsen is progressing rapidly. Timber is being shaped to cover the holes in her sides. Temporary plates will be held on bv Hie timbers, and it is expected that ‘with the aid of her pumps she can reach Port Chalmers, where arrangements have been made to dock her. It is expected that she will be able to proceed north in about three weeks’ time. Another medium-sized hole has been discovered 011 the port side, sliglitlv forward of the meat deck, but it call easily be repaired. It is stated that the vessel has sunk another 18 inches in the sand forward. A sailor on board states that if it were not for the presence of mind of the captain when the vessel ran ashore last week the Iml l would have been torn right out and she would have immediately sank as soon as she touched. Captain Neilsen put the engines full astern and she came off to starboard, swinging clear of the rocks as the head took helm It is understood the captain wished to lay out all night instead of coming up the inlet against slackening water, but was advised by one of the owners, who was on board, to go straight up to the base at Price’s Hav. No marine inquiry will be held in New Zealand, but there will be a perfunctory affair, the principal inquiry being in Norway. The insurance companies are all Norwegian. Those on board the C. A Larsen state that since the disaster Star chasers have taken soundings all round the entrance of the inlet, and up to where the vessel now lies, and have found that the depths as marked on the charts are wrong, in some cases being as much as four fathoms out, the nearest to correct being one marked fourteen fathoms on the chart, and which was found to be thirteen when sounded. The Sir Janies Clark Ross sailed for Norway, via-Panama, this morning, and will call at New York, where tlie great-
est portion of her cargo will be discharged. ’’REPARATIONS FOR DOCKING. BY TELEGRAPH. - PRESS ASSOCIATION. Dunedin, February 28. A start was made to-day ,to lengthen the Otago Dock in order to accommodate the C. A. Larsen, if she is refloated. It is stated (hat representations are being made from both Auckland and Sydney to have the vessel clocked at one of those places. Shipping authorities point out, however, that the C A. Larsen must come to Dunedin for repairs if the Otago Dock can take her, as it would be foolish to suggest that underwriters would take the risk of allowing the damaged vessel to travel any further at sea than absolutely necessary. The repairing of the Larsen, it is said, will be the greatest undertaking of its kind ever carried out iu the Dominion. Word was received at Dunedin to-day that Air. Plunkett, at one time Lloyd’s surveyor in Auckland, bad been instructed from London to proceed to Stewart Island to assist iu salvaging the vessel.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 3
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