DORSET REFLOATED.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1918, Page 5

DORSET REFLOATED.

5 At TlB o'clock on Monday mottling the Federal-Shire liner Doi'set was refloated off the Hope Shoal, ill the lower Wellington hiorbor, where she grounded and remained fast when MiiVing from Auckland at 8.15 o'clock last- Twsaday riiomiog. The syork of lightering tlw.PfffSjrtj'W contintifed throughout Sunday, i® in the evening Captain J. Dawson (harborIn aster) was placed-ahoard. the liner by the tug Terawhiti. About 1 o'clock in the morning—the.ntßgs Terawhiti ' Pelican towed at the Dorset, but,, Captain Dawson informed a Now Zealand Times representative, ho discarded their assistance after ten roumtas, and tt few minutes later tlie liner hove herself oil with her own winches hauling on two three-ton mushroom anchors, which had been laid on Sunday Itf liw Teniwhiti. The Dorset w«s afloat "ne hoar before hs'"h water. „ A Qovcrmiwwt Surveyor of snaps, and Mr. Archibald Walker, Lloyd's Survivor. mwto » dose examination of tlie interior of ihe liner's hull on Monday, hut so far as «vuMJb* Mcwuunod there ■were no vw>bio indications of structural daraago w> * *«ult •>( thu giwinding. Mr. Augunt 1Im:«. t3w Earlor Board s diver, went down to irwpent Ui# ortenor of the vessel's hull. The Maw D* partment will not uocido tJw> fttffl tho inquiry into tlso grounding -will take until Ut« fix tent of tlio dßraajje, « any, lilts been ascertained. In the meanwhile tbo XXW»t »:»*«" load her cargo and fill up f.t WelLnfJton.. bo that slw cau sail te Ksyp' I® n " I d;iy nest.