A LIGHTER FOUNDERS.
IN WANGANUI RIVER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wanganui, August 9. A Wanganui telegram states that the lighter Dorset (90 tons) owned by >tho New Zealand Refrigerating Company, sprang a leak last night when returning to port and .drifted off Kai Iwj, where ! she'foundered in seven fathoms. For-:, tunately the weather was fine, and the crew were rescued by the lighter Thistle. The lighter Dorset was outward bound! with a full load of 450 quarters of beef, It was practically dead low water when she was crossing the entrance ajad she; struck, knocking her propellor off- Slid, causing a leak- Fine seamanship ivas, alwwn by Captain Connor, of the Thistle, i in rescuing the passengers and crew. The signals of distress were not. observed, at; 'the pilot station or bypassing isteajners.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1917, Page 5
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132A LIGHTER FOUNDERS. Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1917, Page 5
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