AUXILIARY SCOW ASHORE.
ON WAIROA BEACH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wairoa, Last Night. The auxiliary scow Echo went ashore on the Wairoa beach at 1.30 p.m. to-day in bad weather. The vessel left the wharf at one o'clock, loaded with 450 quarters of frozen meat for transhipment to an overseas vessel at Napier. She negotiated the bar safely, but a heavy sea caused her to broach to. Rollers then struck her rapidly in succession, and her propellor was buried in the shingle, causing the engine to stop, and the Echo was rapidly driven ashore. Fifteen passengers were aboard, including two ladies. Drenched and scared, at low tide, the passengers were able to get ashore. The vessel is high and dry. An attempt will be made at high tide to refloat the vessel, assisted by the Tuata, which Richardson and Co., the owners of the Echo, are sending from Napier. The vessel will not suffer damage if southerly weather is not experienced.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1919, Page 4
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160AUXILIARY SCOW ASHORE. Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1919, Page 4
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