NIAGARA IN STORM
SEAS 70 FEET HIGH
DECK FITTINGS DAMAGED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, January 20.
Vacant davits on the after deck of the liner Niagara and a smashed lifeboat forward remained to bear witness when the vessel arrived at Auckland 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 fittings, 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 twelve hours.
i Captain Martin, although he regarded the storm as being part of the day's work, stated there was an eighty-mile-an-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 the vestibule door on the starboard side and poured a huge weight of water into the ship. However the flooding was not serious.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1936, Page 17
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208NIAGARA IN STORM Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1936, Page 17
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