A ROUGH VOYAGE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 9

A ROUGH VOYAGE.

THE GLENLUI'S EXPERIENCES [BY TELEGBAPH — MESS A&rtOOJATION.] DUNEDIN, 30th May. Tho sailing ship Glcnlui, bound from Adelaide to Conception Bay, on tha I West Coact of South "Africa, with a , cargo of 24,860 bags of wheat, was sighted from Cape Saundeis Bhortly before 1 p.m. to-day, making for Otago Hfado under shortened sail. The vessel was then ten miles to the southeast of tho Cape, and was making slow progress. When tho utienlui was some six miles off she signalled for a pilot, and the Plucky at once went out to her. She waa found standing in under a lower fore-topsail and lower main-topsail and staysails. The Plucky immediately took her in tow, and signal was 'made 'to the heads for the- services of a wcond tug. This _ was taken by those on shore wj j an indication that something was eeri- I ously wrong. Tho tug Koputai st?amrapidly from Port Chulmers and went out to sea, and assisted in towing the vessel — which had water in her hold, and was drawing 23ft — in towards tho heads, which was reached at 6.30 p.m.. It was ascertained that tho vessel had three feet of water in her hold, and that she had fallen in with a violent westerly I gale when off tho Snare 3on Monday j night. Her bulwarks, stanchions, and deck structures were smashed and washed overboard by the force of the gale, and tho cabin fittings were smashed to pieces. The heavy ssas which swept ! over the distressed vessel got down the \ hold through the cabin, and thr?c feet i of water speedily accumulated, damaging tho cargo and stores. During th© height of tho gale the mats was washed overboard and drown- , od. His surname was Jones, but his 1 Christian namo waa not ascertainable. I Ho chipped on tho vessel at Adelaide. I The ship's sails were torn to ribbons. When the gale abated, Captain Scott, , who was in command, set all hinds' to ' ths pumps, and when the Glcnlui reached the heads, tLe water in the hold had, by hard and continuous pumping, been reduced to 13in. The captain and crew lost nearly all i thair clothes. All tho boats except one, which is much damrped, were washed I away. The vestsl will bo brought to port to-day. | Tho vessel left Adelaide on i-slh May with a cargo of wheat, and it is proI bable that, as much of this has been damaged by water, she will have to discharge at Port Chalmers, and will possibly go into dock for repairs. Captain R. C. Scott, the master of the Glenlui, has had thirty-eight years' servico in sailing ships. lio hails from Liverpool. When interviewed ho show1 ed unmistakable signs of the ordeal ! through which ho had just passed. " I suppose you haven't been to sleep fcr three days or nights?" asked a sympathetic bystander. "No," ho replied, "not for a week." The storm which rnged on Monday and Tuesday was ono of the worst ho had ever experienced. I lie believed that it would bo impossible I to bring tho ship to wind, and that the i only chanco of safety lay in running beI fore the galo. At one time tho vessel was going fourteen knots an hour under lower topsails. Both fresh water tanks were full of salt water, and tho starboard tank was stove in. During pumping ono of tho pumps got out of gear, but the crew redoubled thoir efforts on tho ono remaining." Captain Scott says ho cannot explain how tlie timo passed — , day and night were merely a succession of calamities. Asked if his recent experience had not made him tired -of the sea, he replied, " So tired that if there was a bridge from hero to Liverpool' I'd walk home." A whole suit of sails, except royals', was blown to ribbons. The cargo will probably bs discharged, and the vessel docked.