MISSING CANASTOTA

Hokitika Guardian, 7 July 1921, Page 2

MISSING CANASTOTA

PREVIOUS TROUBLE WITH THE PROPELLER SHAFT. GISBORNE, Jul.v 1 Some most interesting informatii •expecting the s.s. Canastota, which •eported to he missing, was given to ■eporter to-day by Mr W. J. Whit iovernment Surveyor of Ships, at Gi ionic. The Canastota arrived at Auc and from New York, via Panama, ew days previous to August (ith la rear. The steamer, load vith benzine, ball had trouble with h nopellor shaft on the run down, 'll tad to be repaired, hut on account ser freight she was not allowed to loafed into the Calliope dock, while tl •xpense of discharging the cargo mai his latter couse prohibitive. It w; hereto re decided to til) the vessel up hat the end of her propellor tube at In tern would he out of the water. Th t-as done when the steamer was lyii longside the Central wharf. After s! ad been tipped sufficiently, the till eing then live inches out of the wate he propellor shaft was withdrawn, ■as then found that the brass lining < he shaft, which was liH inches in di: teter and about P2 feet long, had bee srn'off, for a distance of practical! wo feet towards the forward end of tl haft. The lining was 7-Sths of an inc hick. The shaft was put in a larf vthe at the Calliope dock and the enc f the existing lines were turned up. lee' r e piece was then v fitted and tli lints welded together with the ace tor roeess, the work being finally con leted on August 2<th, 1920. The \e! A then sailed for Wellington. As far as Mr White, who was sm eyor of ships at Auckland at the time new, the shaft liad given entire satis ictfon since.' Captain Williams to ien rtionter of the Canastota and M fttvtmA Ikt chW engium’,