SALAMAUA’S TOW
MAKO BREAKS AWAY AGAIN. BOTH VESSELS TEMPORARILY IN TROUBLE. SYDNEY, August 19. More excitement was provided today for the crew and passengers aboard the rfiotor-ship Salamaua, when during the tow from Newcastle down the coast, the Mako again broke away, and at about the same time the Salamaua’s engines gave trouble. Both vessels were seen from the shore apparently drifting helplessly off Terrigal. A wireless message to Newcastle brought the powerful tug Saint Hilary to the scene. The tug took the Mako in tow at 2 p.m., and the Salamaua soon got going again. The three vessels are now due at Sydney tonight. GALLANT EFFORTS. BOTH SHIPS NOW SAFE IN SYDNEY. (Recd This Day, 11.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Salamaua and Mako have arrived. Both probably will be docked. Passengers by the Salamaua say the towline parted on Thursday night. The Salamaua’s officers and crew battled strenuously, and in some cases heroically, to prevent the Mako from drifting on to the rocks near North Head, south of Newcastle. Some of the officers risked their lives when, in the darkness, they jumped from the Salamaua to the tossing Mako, which was manoeuvred into a position close by to make fast hawsers and ropes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1938, Page 5
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