IN WATERSPOUT.
RIGGING STRIPPED. COPRA VESSEL'S ESCAPE. LIFTED OUT OF WATER. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SUVA, May 8. The master of the- auxiliary cutter Vonu reports an extraordinary happening while the little vessel lay at anchor at Vatia Point, while en route from the Yasawas to Levuka. At 3 a.m. a waterspout struck tho craft. The whirlwind was upon the cutter before anyone on board guessed that
danger threatened. At once there was a scene- of intense confusion. The- Vonu at the time had a full cargo of copra and trochas shell, but in spite of being so deeply laden sho was fairly lifted out of the water, or nearly so, and canted over to an angle of CO degrees. Everything that was not lashed down went overboard and was lost. The forward rigging was stripped, and, as the master remarked, "it was a wonder that the mast was left in her." He said they were all very lucky to be alive.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 113, 16 May 1933, Page 5
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