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ATTEMPT TO REFLOAT PORT BOWEN MISHAP WITH PORTABLE BOILER. FIREMEN TO BE SENT HOME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI. This Day. It is not known when a start will be made on the unloading of the Port Bowen’s cargo, but all arrangements for doing so are being pushed ahead. Three mushroom anchors, attached to a long, heavy steel cable, were laid yesterday. On the seaward side of the vessel there is a depth of 18 feet of water at high tide and of 15 feet on the shore side. Unsuccessful attempts were made today to float a portable boiler cut tc the Port Bowen on a pontoon. The pontoon capsized and the boiler was deposited in the sea. It is intended to send 27 firemen back to England as' soon as passages can be arranged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1939, Page 8
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