VESSEL IN DISTRESS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1913, Page 4

VESSEL IN DISTRESS

TOWED TO PORT. (BY TELEGRAPH — PBBS3 ASSOCIATION.) CHBISTCHUHCH, 2nd Feb. Shortly alter 1 p.m. on Saturday a message was received from the signalman at Adderley Head, Lyttelton, to j the eJfecfc that the Kaiapoi Shipping j Company's Kairaki. bound from Napier jUv Kaiapoi with sheep, had a small schooner in tow. Two houn, later the Kairaki arrived in the stream, and ib was ascertained that the vessel in tow Was tlio auxiliary schooner Fsurburu, a well-known tiader between Auckland, iMipier, aud 'i'imaru. At 4 p.m. the schooner v.-as brought jnside the moles, and berthed tit the- I Gladstone Pier. Seen on arrival, hemaster (Captain 'I'hompson) stated I hat the^res&ul &aiied from Tinwnt on Saturday last with a. full caigo of produce ! for Wairoa. On Tuesday last, when ! abreast of Akaroa. tho veE&el ran into i tt stiong northerly gale, and sought she! tei' in Akiuoa, On the following day she pioccedfd on her voyage, heavy v/eather ' being encountered. At 4 a.m. on D'ri- I day, when ih Cook Strait, the. ]<'air- ! burn was struck by a heavy noi'-ivest ' gale, which blew her fore sail away at:c! I also broke her rudde>' fastenin,". Wlien ! the- gale subsided, efforts wgi-t mauo io | rig a jury ruddsv, but, wlnisb the opi-1.1 tions were being carried out, UlO ver?el drifted well out to sea. Subsequently her auxiliary engines were s°t going, and an effotfc was made to get back in the dire. • j tion of the land, but, owing to v stmng i wind and the oil running short, CapUi't Thomson deemed it advisable to seek help. When about three miles east of Cape Campbell, at 7 o'clock last evening, thp Kairaki wag signalled, and the vessel was taken in tow to Lyttellon. Fairly heavy weather was experienced on the run down tin coast. The vessel will be placed on the Patent Slip on Wednesday next, when repairs will be effected to h<v ruddei, and an examination will hn made of he; propellers. • .She will piobably re,wilier voyage afioiit the end of nc'xt \ eel.. The Fairburn is an aoxiliat / hcliooiip • of 60 tons*. She has two engines <->i 30 h.p., each driving a sepainte torc\>. The owners are Messrs. Cranby and Co.. Napier,