"Polynesien" On N. Hebrides
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Reef
PATCHED with cement but still leaking, the French motor vessel “Polynesien” c 1.389 tons) reached Sydney on July 29 from the New Hebrides for docking.
She grounded on July 15 on a reef off Hat Island, near Port Havannah, Effate, and 1,200 tons of copra, coffee and cocoa had to be jettisoned before the big
Messageries Maritimes passenger liner “Ville d'Amiens” could pull her off. At Vila, several tons of cement were used to make the vessel seaworthy, after the battered plates had been patched.
The “Polynesien”, formerlv the Aus tralian coaster “Mygreta”. has been carrying on the main French inter-island service in the New Hebrides Group since she replaced the “Bucephale” early in 1938.