KARU ENQUIRY.
[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION AUCKLAND, March 25. The Kara inquiry was continued today. George Nelson, engineer, said he felt the vessel touch a pile when berthing at Whangnpc. He made an inspection but failed to find any damage. When the vessel was crossing the bar he felt one slight blimp. He took soundings and found two inches of water in the hold and four inches in the engine room. The soundings were normal. The speed was reduced at 10 .p.m. Shortly after mid-night there was about a foot of water in the engineroom, bilges. Witness had the bilges pumped quite dry. Soundings in the hold showed 10 inches of water and after half an hour’s pumping it bail increased to 19 inches and despite the pumping increased at the rate of two inches per hour. The ship began to list to starboard. About seven in tho morning two or three seas swept over the ship and washed the engine-room door in. Water then began to pour in and further seas opened up tho plates in the ship’s side. It was impossible to keep steam up or to oontiol the water. All hands were ordered on deck. The weather conditions resembled a cyclone.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1926, Page 3
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205KARU ENQUIRY. Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1926, Page 3
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