Steamer Ashore off N.S.W. Coast
“Iron Chief” Sinking : Crew Abandons Ship Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. THE Secretary-General of the Post Office has received advice that the S.S. Iron Chief went ashore on the Mermaid Reef off Crowdy Head with her propellor smashed and holed badly. The S.S. Mildura is proceeding to her assistance and was expected to arrive at 2 o’clock this morning. Later messages indicate that the Iron Chief is now off the reef and is sinking rapidly. At 5.32 a.m. the crew was reported to be abandoning ship. According to a cable received from Sydney, the Iron Chief, which carries inter-State cargo, was on her way from Port Stephens to Coff’s Harbour to finish loading. Her crew numbers 33. —A. and N.Z. The S.S. Iron Chief, formerly named the Elmtree, and later better ' known in New Zealand as the Maindy Lodge, was built %n 1916 by J. Priestman and Co., of Sunderland, and is now owned by the InterState Steamship Co., Ltd. She is a steel screw steamer, with a gross tonnage of 2,720 tons, a length of 331 ft, a width of 43ft and a depth of 21ft. Crowdy Head is on the New South Wales coast and about 100 miles north of Newcastle.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 319, 2 April 1928, Page 9
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207Steamer Ashore off N.S.W. Coast Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 319, 2 April 1928, Page 9
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