AN UNCHARTED ROCK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 86, 7 May 1909, Page 2

AN UNCHARTED ROCK.

LOCATED XEAR MOTUROA.

It will be remembered that about six weeks ago the Corinna reported having struck some submerged object shortly after leaving Ibis port. The vessel at hj,. time «-,,>■ drawing 12ft lin forward ami Jit llin aft. It was believed the \essel struck ( , n t |„, ]lurt si( , although examination failed to reveal any no'sit.ve evidence of the striking. The matter was duly reported, and the Superintendent of Marine, in a- letter to the general manager of the Union Steamship Company, replied: "If the vessel passed over the ground that Captain Cameron ■sa.\s sii,. ,11,1, i eannot understand how the Corinna could touch, as the chart shows eight to ten fathoms all round in vicinity. My own opinion is that tie torinna must have touched a ]<>■» mat was subi .ged in the water, or some hmg of that kind, for I feel satisbed that if a rock or bank existed in Iml locality the break o„ it would be *eiy noticeable m heavy weather. She was only drawing 14ft llin aft and 12ft •■I Howard and any submerged rock •hill she could touch on that draft could have been seen from the vessel's brid«e. ■i" all the rocks in that Jollity have long seaweed on them lloatin« mi' lo the surface." " ' <■"< Al the last meeting „,' Hie Harbor o «;.,„',I l,i "; l, " n l , !; ,st "' r ""us instraeled to sweep the locality to ascertain whether an uncharted rock actually exit-

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