A STORMY VOYAGE.
(By Telegraph.—Freas Association.)
DUNEDIN, Tuesday
A brigantine, with her foretopmast gone, and showing signals of distress, wns off the Heads this morning, and proved to be the Carin, from Laun--eeston to the Maequarrie Islands; Captain Madson reports that on February 24 the wind increased to a very strong' gale, with very heavy seas, her position then being 15.3G deg. south, 157.30 cleg east. The gale increased to a hurricane force, oil bags' being used. It reached its height at ■ ten p.m.. of February 26,: when a fierce squall carried away the foretopmast, all the upper sails, and the jibboom with headsails. The weather moderated the next day, and Captain Madson shaped a course for port.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 56, 7 March 1900, Page 5
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