SPRUNG A LEAK.
SCHOONER IN DISTRESS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The American four-masted schooner Kona, bound from Newcastle to the Hawaiian Islands, put into port to-day, leaking badly. She left Newcastle on April 29th, with coal, meeting a southeasterly gale on May ft, which increased to hurricane strength the next day, causing the vessel to spring a leak. Water was made at the rate of about a foot an hour, and on the same afternoon the crew demanded that the vessel put into the nearest port, as she would be unable to reach her destination. Captain Hansen promised that if the leak did not decrease when the weather moderated he would make a New Zealand port. Next day, the Kona continued, to make water, and the crew, including the officers, refused duty unless the vessel was taken to the nearest port. There was twenty feet of water in her hold on arrival here.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1916, Page 5
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155SPRUNG A LEAK. Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1916, Page 5
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