THE HAWEA FOUND. PICKED UP BY RAKANOA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2283, 31 August 1908, Page 2

THE HAWEA FOUND. PICKED UP BY RAKANOA.

United Press Association. Copyright SYDNEY, August 2. The Union Co.’s s-s. Rakanoa, with the missing steamer Hawea in tow, was signalled at Crowdy Heads this morning, all well, proceeding to Sydney. DUNEDIN, Aug. 29.. The Union Company are advised that tho Rakanoa picked up the Hawea off Manning Head, and reaches Sydney to-morrow. United Press Association. Copyright (Received August 30, 8.7 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 29. It is expected that the Hawea will reach Sydney to-morrow forenoon.

HAWEA ARRIVES AT SYDNEY. ENGINEERS’ SPLENDID WORK. THE BREAK REPAIRED. United Pbess Association. Copyright (Received August 31, 12.51 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 30. After the second boat left the Hawea, the vessel continued' to drift. On August 12th the wind increased to a gale, and the ship rode it out broadside on, with all available sail set to get to westward, but she began' drifting eastward. On the 10th. there was a wind from the north-west and sails were stowed to prevent the vessel going further east. . A spell of fine weather set in, and the engineers set to work t 0 try and place a coupling on the broken shaft. They had to work waist deep in water. By means of steel hawsers the propeller was worked into position. The engineers were called upon tjb do dangerous work in the after-tank, but they stuck manfully to their work. When it was tested it- was found that the work was well, hut a stop had to be made occasionally to tighten it up, and by the 26th the engines were going. The vessel made three to four knots till picked up two days later by the Rakanoa. Even if the Rakanoa had not picked up the ITawea she would have reached Sydney -to-night under her own steam. CHIEF ENGINEER’S STORY. Chief Engineer McLean an<] hi s assistants, after nine days’ of strenuous work, were able, to inform the captain that the ship could reach Sydney unaided. Mr. McLean states that the shaft snapped in fine weather. There was a couple of humps, and then the engines raced like sewing machines. Tlie smash was right at the forward endof the stern tube, and lie believed first lie would be unable to repair it. During the first sixteen davs they had a lot of bad weather, and lie co , llll l Jl ofc get near tlio propeller, but when the weather got fine he had a 'k- tie first had to cut away the after cross-plate and had to do it vith such tools as were on ■ board. Then he had to cut away tlio anglo irons <m each side of the ship, and after that had to cut away 18 inches of stern tube, which was of iron, and was an inch and a-lialf through, follow mg that lie had 1 0 cut through lour inches of a stern bush, and eight niches of lining on the broken ■ shaft. All this had to be done to carry the patent colliding. After snapping tile propeller had to bo shipped back as far as tlie rudder would let it, and the shaft had' to he got back from the outside. This job took two days. Had the break been a little more aft the propeller would have gone to the bottom, At length the coupling was adjusted, and the vessel steamed Kir m j] J OS towards Sidney "ben the Rakanoa picked her up. They had a four days’ job stopping a leak m the main condensei. In .repairing the shaft the men. water° " 111 t^lreo or four feet of THE FOOD SUPPLIES. clli l f steward states that thov e had ti ent e, l Cy ° f l )l '°y isi <ws, but vessel 1 f OW1 * supplies Until the v °s? e ‘ pOt under her own steam. AmniG Wfl° f V csscl "l a s seen until sVmt-e St + ?, 6tl1 ’ !U - ship fi+f J . h r )n sht before tlie .after (ell in with the tug Advance looking for thfe Hawea 100 Js&sr driftin * ■•"'w