ALARMING ACCIDENT.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
DUNEDIN, This day.
:'A. serious accident happened shortly before 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon in Port Chalmers dockyard. The rudder of the Kotomahana which weighs several tons was being lowered into the dock from the travelling crane in the, yard. The crane was insufficiently weighted belowto counterbalance the strain caused by the rudder, and it gave way, and the rudder and crane both fell with a crash to the bottom of the dock, the crane tearing up the rails on which it ran. The crane was greatly smashed about, ami it is impossible to say at present what parts will be fit for use again. The injuries to the Judder are apparently not.so great, but the pintle is broken off, and the rudder will have to go again into the shop for repair. The accident will delay still longer the completion of repairs.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1118, 28 November 1883, Page 2
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