Escaped From Rabaul Eruption
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The small wooden motor-vessel Desi koko (230 tons) arrived in Sydney on December 13 to undergo repairs and over haul.
The Duris, Durour and Desikoko, all small ships operated by W. R. Carpenter and Go. Ltd., were in Rabaul harbour, close to Vulcan Island, when the erup tion occurred on May 28. The two for mer were destroyed; but the Desikoko escaped. She broke from her mooring, in a tidal wave, and drifted on to a mud bank. The keel was badly damaged, and the upper structure burned by hot ashes; but the vessel eventually was refloated and, finding a way through the floating pumice, escaped from the harbour.
The little wooden motor-ships Desikoko and John Bolton were built at Jervis jSay, N.S.W., and have been found very useful in the New Guinea inter-island trade.