DRIFTING ON TO ROCKS
Press Association.)
Ship at Gisborne Checked Just in Time
(By Telegraph—
vilbliUKJN E, Jan. 23. During a strong westerly gale yesterday afternoon the overseas liner Port Bowen dragged its anchors and drifted broadside on to within a short distance of the rocks runfiing out from Kaiti Beach. By a fortunate circumstaace the harbourmaster, Capbi.'n A. Cav&on. was in the roadstead aboa. *d tne piloo launch, which was procteding to meet another liner, the Cornwall, and he boarded the Port Bowon without delay and manager to rheck tl.e drift just at a time when the situut;u.i hau begun to look dange: • is.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 8, 25 January 1937, Page 9
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