MISHAP TO A BARQUENTINE.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1919, Page 4

MISHAP TO A BARQUENTINE.

RESCUED IN SINKING OdmildiNi, ; By Telegraph.—Presa Artoftfcttom ")' Wellington, :^4Btlßgnt, , The barquentine Laura, 70 daw oat from San Francisco, after bftlng outtid* the heads for a week, arrived ben''in a sinking condition early this moratiffc On berthing she had ten feet of imfer in tbo hold, and was making at %i rate of two feet per hour. J&m «*i ? n J 3e m S athered -< tl,B n** B **. CNffl*? A. G. Taylor, will give notoinelpUß press), the Pelican received a c*B (b a sailer in distress laßt night, and the tug picked up the Eaura abo»t four miles outside the hea'da iii a. ioMherly direction, and got a line aboaaT«»ut one o'clock. Tlie Kordraltoo wai.irtanding by when the tug arrived, and the men were at the sailer's pump* from nme o'clock till she berthed, wVejO her oil engine pot going and, in conjunction with the Pelican's pumps; «tart«d to pump. , The kteat advices state.-that the water in the hold is in the neighborhood of six feet. A diver went, down in the morning and reported that th.P twel was badly damaged, also the:-starboard Ride amidships. In the afternoott.a diver temporarily patched the hol«|, Tlie Lanra lias n. full cargt> of case oil, for which the Vacuum Oil Company pre acents. The current rumbsr u that the vessel hit Barrett's Rwf and pat to sea again.