EIGHT DAYS OUT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1939, Page 5

EIGHT DAYS OUT

MIRO FROM NAPIER

After being at sea for eight days on a trip which usually takes about 36 hours, the auxiliary ketch Miro arrived at" Wellington from Napier last night. She had experienced the hard southerly bjow of last week and for four days had been hove-to. During this time she drifted back about 120 miles until she had passed her starting point. After leaving Napier on July 5 for Wellington, the Miro got down as far as Gape Turnagain, a member of her company said today, and there met a strong -south-wester accompanied by high seas The Miro was hove-to and the wind changed to the south The wind continued to blow hard from the I south for four days, and the little ketch, which was about forty miles off the land, was blown back up the coast until Gisborne was abeam. The weather then moderated enough for the Miro to get under way again and she continued her passage to Wellington under quite good conditions, arriving here 48 hours later. No damage was done on the trip; while hoveto she rode the seas well.