VESSELS COLLIDE IN FOG
STEAMER IRIS DAMAGED. CRUISER PHILOMEL UNHARMED. The Pacific cable repair steamer Iris, while about to leave the Thorndon breastwork about 11 o’clock on Saturday morning, came into collision with the cruiser' Philomel, which was moored astern of the Iris. The cable boat received substantial damage well above the water-line, but the cruiser was not affected by the impact. Through some cause the Iris went astern instead of ahead, and before she could bo checked hor stern struck the stem of the Philomel. The Iris had some of her stern plates badly dented, and a wooden platform, which was erected during the -war period to accommodate a 12-poundcr gun, was considerably damaged. The stays of the Iris’s mainmast came into contact with the gantry of a large wooden wharf-accommodation crane. Tho stays were carried 1 away; and the gantry was knocked down, Temporary repairs to the Iris’s rigging were effected, and tho vessel moved out to the stream at 3 p.m. on Saturday. She sailed at 7 o’clock yesterday morning lor Cook Strait to re pair a cable.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10615, 14 June 1920, Page 5
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181VESSELS COLLIDE IN FOG New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10615, 14 June 1920, Page 5
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