Another Ship Breaks Down
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Off Fiji
Suva, Oct. 23.
THE vessel, Manu’a Tele, en route from Suva to Pago Pago, reached Levuka, Fiji, on October 20, on one engine, after a breakdown in the Koro Sea. She will be brought to Suva.
Two members of the crew, Mr. Wayne Lovell and a Samoan named Siligi, who had set out after the breakdown, in one of the ship’s boats to attempt to reach Makogai, missed the island and were carried by wind and current towards Vanua Levu. When sighted by an RNZAF Catalina which had gone out to search for them, they were approaching Solevu Point, near Nabauwalu. They were later picked up at Nabouwalu by a Levuka cutter.
The Isa Lei (Capt. Farrell master) ar rived in the BSI Protectorate from Suva on October 9, on charter to the Govern ment Trade Scheme. She will collect copra round the Group during the ab sence of the Government vessel, MV Kurimarau, which sailed shortly after wards for Suva for overhaul.