CRANE COLLAPSES
WHILE LIFTING LAUNCH.
MISHAP AT LYTTELTON
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day.
A three-ton motor launch owned by the Union Company was dropped into Lyttelton Harbour from a height of 15ft when a five-ton crane, which was being used to lower it. collapsed. The launch which had just been overhauled, was extensively damaged, but did not sink. A stay of the crane gay way. allowing a tripod to collapse and a derrick to fall on the boat. Ivan Niven, a railway porter, suffered slight injuries to a leg.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1940, Page 6
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90CRANE COLLAPSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1940, Page 6
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