SEAS MOUNTAINS HIGH.
TANKER'S WILD TIME. CREWS QUARTERS FLOODED. i (By Tolc-'rauh.—Press Association.) j WELLINGTON, this day. The American oil tanker Mercus 11. Whittier had a wild time outside Wellington on Thursday in the vicinity of the Ripple's supposed struggle. The Whittier arrived o(T the heads on Wednesday nigtit, but, in face of heavy seas land gale, the captain decided to stand 'o!T. The ship was hove to all that night, and all Thursday till midnight, I when'the wind cased off, and the vessel, 'which was then sixty-five miles south- ' east of Wellington, was put on a course for this port. The gale came from the ■south-west, with terrific rain squalls, I and a dangerous, breaking sea. mountains high. C'olUpse of the ventilators ' led to the flooding of the furvpeak nnd of 'the crew's quarter* nft. The Whittier 'was in the neighbourhood of the Uippl.-H supposed position on Thursday morning, but nothing was swn of her or i>: any .other craft.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 188, 9 August 1924, Page 7
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