A LONG VOYAGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 865, 11 July 1910, Page 6

A LONG VOYAGE.

GALES AND MOUNTAINOUS SEAS,

The Viganella, which arrived at New Plymouth from Liverpool on Thursday, was 117 days on the voyage. She encountered fine weather until tho region of the Capo of Good Hopo, but after rounding the Capu the encounterc.l uiountiiir.Mis sens, and sue was what tho omcers described as ''full of water" for thirty hours. It was quite impossible to pass along tho deck, and tho oiiici'rs , cabins, winch are on the level of the mam deck, had a couplo of l'eot of water in thorn. A Rood breeze from the southward brought.her to tho Australian coast, but for six days u south-east ti lia'l to be fought in rounding Tasmania. This was followed by a spoil of fine weather, which brought them to within two hundred miles of the New Zealand coast, where they experiencp.d a fierce storm from the imrth-crm, Hit sturniiest weather of tho whole voyage. The vessel was hove-to for eight days in a heavy sea and squally weather, tho wind ris'.n;; to hurricano force. They were then in latitude 42Wle<*. S. and loiiyittuii , 169deg. E. Variable winds followed by a good wind from the westwar-l and brought Mount Eginont in viewer. 11 o'clock on Wednesday morninjj. Th« vessel was at one time as far south as tho 47th parallel, as the result nl a north-east gale, which drovo them fai to the south "' Tasmania. Crossing the Tasman Sea, tho crew caught soreisl albatrosses, and one or two were wiltfcd in tho hope that their flesh .would prove a change to the "salt junlc But they were highly unpalatable. >.o sail was" sighted fro;n April 27. The Viganelln Ims nrver previously been m New Zealand waters, but was at Hobart six years Only ono of her present complement was then a member of the crew. Mr. fteiss, now the second mate, Tim Viganella is a Gtrman vessel, manned by Germans. Captain 15. NH-el is in cowiaivi, his first officer is Mi. B. Lasson. and tho second officer is Mr. M. Reiss. The crow comprises sixteen all '-' , The vessel was l-nilt in Stettin, m Germany, in 1893. Her tonnar? is 76'! tons! and her dimensions are about 200 feet over all by 35 feet beam.