FURY OF THE SEA.
♦ DISMASTED BARQUE ARRIVES. LONG VOYAGE FROM' LONDON. (UNITED M 33.1 AS9OCIATIOS-BI ILISCTRIO TELEQBAPH—COPYKIGHT.) ADELAIDE, May 10. After 'a terrific struggle against fierce storms and being at the mercy cf wind and current for 18 days, the dismasted Finnish barque Hougotiont, with 2k men aboard, anchored about seven miles from Semaphore. The voyage from. London lasted lA> da The storm which disabled the' vessel occurred on April 20th was MO miles from Cape Borda, Kangaroo Island, off the South Australian coast. According to the master, Captain B. Sandstrom, the gale was of indescribable fury, and was the worst he had ever encountered, the vessel being swept-from end to end; The Hougomont was on her way to Port Lincoln, South Australia, to load wheat for Home. ...,
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20543, 11 May 1932, Page 16
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