STEAMER IN A GALE
RUNS SHORT OF COAL Dominion Special Service. Auckland, June 17. Battered by heavy seas, the steamer Yoseric arrived in Auckland harbour to-day on her voyage from Galveston, Texas, to Sydney. She would not have touched New Zealand in the ordinary course of events, but a long battle against westerly gales depleted her bunkers and she had to put into the Waitemata for coak She will load 250 tons.
Moderately fair weather was experienced during the greater part of the trip across the Pacific, but to use a nautical phrase she “ran into it” early last week, experiencing at first a heavy swell, but later a full gale. Mountainous seas broke over the ship on Thursday, and one solid wall of water crashed amidships. The alleys were flooded and the water rushed down the fiddley grating flooding the floor of the engine-room and stokehold, but not deeply enough to damp the fires.
Ang Yow, one of the crew of Chinese, had a miraculous escape from being washed overboard during the gale. He was on the fo’csle head when the Yoseric shipped a sea which threw him for some distance. Fortunately he managed to cling to a ventilator until his comrades came to his assistance.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 224, 18 June 1929, Page 10
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