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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21686, 21 January 1936, Page 8

NIAGARA IN "■%[■ GALE /■% ; —♦ — LIFEBOAT SMASHED BIG £EAS MET IN NOUTH PACIFiC (PUESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, January 20; Vacant davits on the after deck 0 f the liner Niagara and a smashed lifeboat forward remained to bear witness when the vessel arrived at Auckland of a storm of exceptional severity encountered on the southward voyage between Vancouver and Honolulu. A certain amount of other damage was done to the deck fittings, but no one was injured and structural repairs had been made in most instances before the linej reacned port. The Niagara left Vancouver on January 1, and ran into a storm two days later. The wind gradually ia. creased to gale force. When the ' storm was at its height the liner was forced to heave to for about 12 hours. Captain Martin, although ? he regarded the storm as being part of the day's work, stated that there was an 80t-mile-an-hour gale, and that the seas at times were 70ft high. At intervals the seas broke over the decks of the liner. Ventilators on the forward part of the ship were damaged. One particularly heavy wave smashed in the vestibule door on the starboard side, and a huge weight of water poured into 1 the ship. However, the flooding was not serious. - I