BROKEN RUDDER
WILD DAYS AT SEA
BARQUE CRiPPLED OFF NEW ZEALAND COAST
HAMBURG RETURNS TO- SYDNEY.
(UXIIED TRESS ASSOCIATION'—COPYRIGHT.) ' (Received 4th May, 10 a.m.) : SYDNEY, This Day. The barque Hamburg, which left Melbourne for the United Kingdom, laden with wheat, on 18th April, has returned to Sydney af'.er a thrilling experience. After rounding New Zealand, three hundred miles off the Bluff, she struck a violent gale,, which stripped her canvas. She continued for several days, wallowing among mountainous seas, and then her rudder-stock snapped. Out of control, the barque was knocked about by the gale, and it was impossible to make repairs. On the third day the weather moderated. The crew, which vvas mostly composed of German apprentices, succeeded with much difficulty in rigging a jury steer-ing-gear, and, taking advantage of a favourable wind, the captain decided to make for Sydney, though New Zealand was nearer, aiid sailed with the jury rudder nearly a thousand miles. Fortunately, the cargo had not shifted, otherwise the vessel would have been doomed.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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169BROKEN RUDDER Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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