DUNEDIN GOES SALVAGING

Evening Star, Issue 19798, 23 February 1928, Page 11

DUNEDIN GOES SALVAGING

With her full pumping equipment and an acetone plant for repair purposes on board, also a diver and diving outfit, the salvage tug Dunedin left Port Chalmers last night to render assistance to the damaged whaler in Paterson inlet. Captain M‘Lean, harbor master, went on the vessel. The Dunedin’s previous salvage job was refloating tho old Moaria when she sank at the wharf prior to being towed from Port Chalmers and sunk at the mole at the Heads. The damaged whaler C. A. Larsen was before being converted to whaling the oil tanker San Gregoria. Her dimensions are: Length 527.2 ft, beam 66.6 ft, depth of hold 33.9 ft. These dimensions are similar to those of the steamers Cambridge and Cumberland, at present handling cargo at Port Chalmers, also of the steamer Hertford, which recently sailed for northern ports. The C. A. Larsen is 3ft longer than the Cambridge, but the latter steamer has 4ft greater depth of hold; the Hertford is 7ft less in length than the C. A. Larsen, but lias sft greater depth of hold. Tho C. A. Larsen has a gross registered tonnage of 12.093, which is upwards of 2,000 more than these other steamers, hut that is largely due to her design and deck plan providing more enclosed space. The Dunedin, which left Port Chalmers at 6.30 p.m. yesterday, was expected to reach Paterson’s Inlet about 10 a.m. to-day. Tho ship repairing appliances at Port Chalmers are recognised as the most up to date and extensive in the dominion, and it is said that the Otago dock could be made to accommodate the C. A. Larsen by being extended a few feet at its inner end.