THE INDRABARAH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 20, 28 May 1913, Page 5

THE INDRABARAH.

PROSPECTS OF FLOTATION ' ' '' ' ' ! ' 1 ' [Per Press Association.] I Wellington, May 27. After an absence of over two weeks from Wellington, the Union Company*.- + ug Terawhiti, which has been engag ed in salvaging operations at the seen* of the stranding of the Indraharah arrived hack in Wellington, this even ing. Captain Watchlin was optimisti; in regard to the chances of re-floating the big boat. “They wilf get her off, all right, I think,’ he said. “We hop; next time we come hack to Welling ton to have her in tow.” The Tera whiti’s task has throughout been om of the greatest difficulty. The woath er was very rough, only three fine days being experienced. In those tlu-of clays she managed to lay three an chors, which are now taking the strain of the seaward hawsers while two lines from the stranded vessel have been attached to anchors buried ir, sand inshore. In heavy weather the waves broke a quarter of a mile off shore, and the Terawhiti was at no time able to get very close to the Indraharah. There are only about fourteen feet of water within 250 cable lengths of her at low tide. She has now made a heel for herself in the sand, and is firmly embedded, moving neither with the sea nor with the tide. She is making no water, and those on hoard her are not at all in an uncomfortable position. After tak ing on hoard two five ton anchors now in process of manufacture, and some stron gcahles, the Terawhiti will leave again for the Rangitikei Bight. The question has been mooted of lighters taking the cargo out of the stranded vessel, hut the general opinion seems to he that there is no possibility of lighters being able to get alongside the Indraharah in her present position.