Royal Navy Depot Ship Stranded on Sandbar

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5309, 23 January 1947, Page 5

Royal Navy Depot Ship Stranded on Sandbar

SYDNEY, Jan. 22. i Tliough 50-mile an hour gales are iashing the coast south of the jtranded 10,000-ton Royal Naval depot sliip, Bonadventure, which ran aground near Cooktown, Queensland, on her way from Hongkong to Sydney, the vessel is in no immediate danger. She v reported to be still on an waka-! with no damaged compartmrats aml m. i-asualties. The vesrel ?WB!i(k'(i ua a sandbar off Cape Melille. A sloop and four corvettes of the !0tl Miiu'sweepinii' Flotilla were enjaged in oxerds. s over 1000 miles 10 the south of Gape Melville when they were onleretl to the assistance »f the Bonadventure. The frigate Shoalhaven is also approaching the ressel from Xew Gtiinea waters. The Bonadvt'iiture, which left lonkontr on January 12 and was due n Sydney m: January 25 carries a j irew of over ."ion and 158 passengers, nearly >.11 of whom are British s-er-ficenien. The ht-avy ('oiiunonwealth salvage [ug Taneivii iel't Brisbane this mornlnff for the weiti*, where she is expeeted on Saturday. The Tancred is one of the most powerful salvage vessels in Australian waters and was being conddered in ccmnection with the Wanganella stranding. The Bouuil'. loiiure was built in retnwie!: n 1 . i:i and became antotis ;i» . (lej)ut ship for six u b:es which crippled the Tirpitr and hich in July, 1945, w up ti.,- .Japiniese beavy cruiser fhao in tlu- .1,,;,,,^ strait. Since e war He !::i. 'k-oi, carrying troops 11 Mipphr. i.otween A ustralia- and "igapoie. , essel LscajKks Undamaged Under Own I'ower SVDNKY, January 22. niidget submarine mother ® 'P> lionavcnture, which t affrouml for 21 liours on the sandbar «ff C;,pe Mehille, North ueeiislaiui. camo off to-day uiuler er »«it |)(.w cr. The Xavy Office in advisul this afternoon that nhj } '1as ra,6'H'd saying that she amaged, and was continuing her ' a^e *° Sydney, where she is exPected early next week. * , llava' vessels which were v. ? tu her assistance have all onc 3n^t'Ucted to return to their values tasks. n^1* Curacao Blamed For °usion With Queen Mary An 4, I-ONDON, Jan. 22. 'lnt fif lu'a^v Court has found rel -u"niiser fUr-s- -uracao was (-'°fTi''!'on with the Boneo-ai j n ol¥ tho coast of 25 nffi ' 1 ctober, 1942, in which crewif and :51:J (;f Curacao'sTh their lives. a2ainV^mi^alty hrought the aetion aHeein 6 ^unai'd-White Star Line, c°mnanVn en ee* The steamshiP The in { a counter action. f° deta('e(T PTiat the accident ihe [1, 6 ^ ,due 1:0 the negligence of "mser's observers.