HOVE-TO IN GALE.
NEWS PROM THE WATERLILY. (PEESS ASSOCIATION TH.lnruM AUCKLAND, May 18. A gale encountered on Tuesday night by the ketch Waterlily, in which seven old boys of Christ's College arc en route from New Zealand to Tonga, made it ' necessary for the vessel to heave-to for some hours. A wireless message to this effect transmitted from the ketch by short wave was picked up bv an Auckland amateur. . Only brief details were given, but the vessel reported "all well, although the weather was threatening. • \'! e fetch's position at 8 o 'clock tonight was given aa longitude 175 degrees, and latitude 31 degrees, which is about 250 miles north of Bussell. That port was left on Sunday.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20550, 19 May 1932, Page 8
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