A COLLIER IN A GALE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13105, 2 May 1908, Page 11

A COLLIER IN A GALE.

STORMY PASSAGE OF THE BRISBANE.

A gn.lo in th" Sea, <ibe wme which deSa.yed th* | Mahero beimeon a.»-d Welli-ijton. n-d tho U'irtMioa, bcttreen ara3 rte Bluff, b-en-t, tbe wellknown collier Bricbar.e en , her passwe from K«woaMl« to" Jjyttelton. Oaptarn Mia<:Lecd iitfonned a- "Pn-ps" reporter that the Brisbane left ni 3 p.m. on Wcdrerdfty, April 22jJ, a.rd txparienocd fair wewttcr until 2 p.m. on Saturdny la«-b, when th© dieep'ylnd°n ne««el ©roi-urtieTed' a v«ry h*avy southwest g?a!e, wtioh blow with hurrw-aiie force, Mjd raised ti very higih eea. The ve*e«l, w>iich wus th<m flbout 500 mijes from Oa.j:« rolled ar.d pitchrd violontly in tie ierrific Fee., and was compelled to heave to for thirty hours. Ofl. was up«d freely to prevcrrt tho heavy ffas from br«i\kinig, and ■with good results. TE*> vessel shipped jjreet quantities of water, but fortunately no dam-

age was done. The g»lc began to moderate cbout daylight on Monday last, and the ves*el beaded for Xow Zc-alor.d oeto more. After that southerly wicd3, with high seas, were experienced until Cape Farewell w*s paje«d at 7.40 p.m. on Wednesday. Light variable wirnJ=, with pmocth «>as and fine weather were then met with, and lasted until ttrrival. Gap« Campbell w«s passtd at 1 p.m. on Iturrdtiy, atd tho veswjl dropped a.i.cbor in Lytta'.ton harbour at 7.30 ajn. yeeterday, after *n uousually k>cg passage of *i e -br. and a half dij-s. The Brifbace is dischargic-g 1100 tons of coal at axd is to soil on Tuesday neit for Kaipaffa, to lexid tinLb-er for Melbourne. It ia wcruhy of ■ mention that tbe Mararoa, which left 2ve«-oaj>t;e tivor.ty-four hour* bshir.d the Brisbane, raad« the passage in four ar.d a hull days, and arrived at Lyttelton Jeet Tuesday. The Ma-raroo. escaped the s*.e, but met with froah southerly winds and a very heavy swell across the Taeman Sea.