FIRE ON A STEAMER.
BAEAIA DELAYED AT LYTTELTON (Per Press Association.) - • LYTTELTON, May 9. Just as the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Rakaia was unmooring preparatory to-sailing for London, via Monte Video, Toneriffe, and Gibraltar, smoke was observed coming through the flooring of the chief engineer’s room. An examination revealed an incipient fire in the after portbunker,- where the coal was smouldering, smoking and steaming. Water was poured in, and the smoke ceased. A quantity of coal was removed and a survey made by Lloyds’, surveyor. The manager of tho .shipping company states that the fire was not serious, and had been caused by a naked steam pipe passing through the bunker having been covered with coal, which was fired by the heat.V; The departure of. the Rakaia lias .beep: postponed until' to--morrow morning.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2497, 10 May 1909, Page 5
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134FIRE ON A STEAMER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2497, 10 May 1909, Page 5
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