LINER IN STORM

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 10

LINER IN STORM

Damage on Niagara SEAS 70 FEET HIGH Vessel Hove-to For Twelve Hours By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, January 20. Vacant davits on the after deck of the liner Niagara and a smashed lifeboat forward remained io bear witness when the vessel arrived at Auek land, 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 titlings, but no one was injured and structural repairs’ had been effected in most instances before the liner reached port. The Niagara left Vancouver on January 1. and ran into the storm two days later. The wind gradually increased to gale force, and when the storm was at its height the liner was forced to heave to for about. 12 hours. Captain Martin, although lie regarded the 'storm as being part of the day’s work, stated there was an 80-mile-au-hour gale and that the seas at the time were 70ft. high. At intervals' seas broke over the decks of the liner. Ventilators on the forward part, of the ship were damaged. One particularly heavy wave smashed in a vestibule doer on the starboard side and poured a huge weight of water into the ship However the flooding was not serious.