A STORMY VOYAGE.
6 PERILOUS EXPEDIENCE OF A BARQUE. (nv TELEGiIATil —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ■ . i Dunodin, September 17. The Norwegian barque Ariel, 796 tons, arrived to-day after a voyage of'3o days from Surprise Island with a cargo of guano. Bad weather prevented her getting through .Cook Strait. On trying to nii\kc Foveaux Strait a south-east gale drove her south of the Snares,, and on September 11 it increased in force. Tho gale raged with hurricane force for 22 hours, tearing two boats from the 'lashings and washing away the galley. Seas stove in the forecastle door and took tho men's bunks-from tho bulkheads. Tho Ariel 'passed tho Snares oil Sunday night, and got moderate to fine weather under the shelter of the land. i
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 305, 18 September 1908, Page 10
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123A STORMY VOYAGE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 305, 18 September 1908, Page 10
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