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Lady Northcote to be back in operation by next week

Mar 19, 2012 News

The Lady Northcote, which suffered damage after its engine room caught fire is expected to be back in operation by next week.
This is according to Minister of Transport Robeson Benn who spoke with this publication yesterday. Minister Benn said that the report he received from the engineers revealed that the damage to the engine was superficial.
“The damage was superficial and our engineers are still working on the vessel and within another week the service will be back up and running,” Minister Benn said.
Two Saturdays ago at around 16:00 hours the Captain of the vessel was forced to contact officials at Port Georgetown for assistance to bring the vessel into the Transport and Harbours, Kingston Wharf, after fire broke out in the engine room.
Transport Minister Robeson Benn has said the fire was caused by a diesel leak.
“The vessel was entering port Georgetown coming to the goods wharf and there was a leak of diesel from a faulty valve on an exhaust manifold. That caught a fire, burned the window of the pipes to the fuel tanks and the entire engine room caught a fire”.
Benn further explained that because of the leaking fuel on the one engine the captain was forced to stop the second engine, hence the need for the boat to be towed to Port Georgetown.
However, all 45 passengers and 13 crew members were safe and no injury reported. A car which was on the deck on the vessel was slightly scorched.
He said all of the passengers were fitted with life jackets as there was more than enough for everyone onboard.

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