SALVAGE DELAYED
STRANDED PORT BOWEN REFLOATING OPERATIONS TUGS RETURNING HOME VESSEL TO BE LIGHTENED (Per Pross Association.) WANGANUI, this day. The stranded Port Bowen was pounded by heavy seas throughout the week-end, but the vessel’s hull was not damaged. The sand has built up between the beach and the vessel, and, at low Water, it is jpossiDle to climb aboard a lifeboat tied to the vessel’s side without getting wet above the knees.
The rough weather prevented the taking of soundings in the vicinity of the Port Bowen and it appears now that there is little likelihood of refloating the vessel during the period of the spring tides at the end of the (month as it would be impossible to lighten the ship in time.
This view is supported by the announcement that the -tugs from Wellington and Lyttelton are returning to their home ports until required again. A large quantity of heavy salvage gear has arrived and, when the ship has been made secure in her present position, unloading operations will commence.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 5
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173SALVAGE DELAYED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 5
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