IRON HULK BEACHED.
COLLISION WITH STEAMER. BACK BELIEVED TO BE BROKEN. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, January 13. The iron hulk Arawata, the property of the Union Company, was beached in a sinking condition shortly after 11 o’clock this morning alongside the Kaiwarra Railway Station. She has a full load of coal on board, and was being brought alongside the steamer Devon, which is anchored in the stream, for bunkering, when she bumped into the steamer and sprang a leak. The tugs Terawhiti and Natono towed her to the shore immediately. It was found she was leaking seriously, and she is now lying with her bows high up on the rocks. It is feared, however, that her back is broken, as the waist of the hulk and her stern are well under water. ' The Arawata was originally a passenger steamer of 567 tons, and was launched at Glasgow in 1875. She had a speed of 15 knots, and she completed the trip from Glasgow to Melbourne in 52 days, including stoppages. She also did the | trip from Melbourne to Port Chalmers in five days—at that time the fastest ! voyage made. ;
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19997, 14 January 1927, Page 8
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190IRON HULK BEACHED. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19997, 14 January 1927, Page 8
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