STEAMED STERN FIRST.
. | ESCAPE OF MAUI POMARE. I HURRICANE AT APIA. ! PKALSK FOR SKAMAN>HiP. '"A magnificent performance in sea- ' niaiifhip,*' was tne comment made by an Auckland «shipina<ster this morning' | upon the achievement of Captain Wil- { liani Henry .Mac-Donald, master of the I Government's motor vessel Maui I J'oniare. who took his ven*rl gafelv to sea at Apia on January 10 in the face of a rag;n» gale. Captain Mac-Donald \v?.s warned by the. harbourmaster of Apia of the peril of remainin- in the harbour. In a higa gale which threatened to develop into a hurricane (.'apt. Mat-Donald could not get the Maui l'omare head on and he took the only course open, of heating his way against the gale *ter:i first. Jhe \iolence of an Apia hurricane wa«i fully proved during tne 'nineties, when nineteen vessels, "including live men-'..-war. wr.j lost. The" only vessel to escape was H.M.s. Calliope, under Cajitaiti Kean, K.N. "Captain Mac Donald's feat of seamanship \d second only to that of Captain Kean," wa s the remark made.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 41, 18 February 1929, Page 3
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173STEAMED STERN FIRST. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 41, 18 February 1929, Page 3
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