Mangola On
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(And Off) Moresby Reef
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, April 7.
AFTER being on the reef at the en trance to Port Moresby harbour for 19 hours, the Burns Philp cargo ship Mangola (3,352 tons* floated off a few minutes before midnight last night.
The Mangola went aground at 5 a.m. yesterday while making for the gap in the reef. All available ships went to her aid but after trying all morning to pull her off, they had to wait until high tide last night.
Meanwhile some of the Mangola’s cargo was taken off to lighten her.
She seemes little the worse for the ex perience, apart from a slight leak which is being fixed here, and will continue her voyage.
Her skipper is well-known islands ship master and artist, Captain Brett Hilder, who is making his first trip to Port Moresby for a year.