WANGANELLA IN GALE
DINING SALOON EMPTY. [per press association.] AUCKLAND, June 23. Having encountered a storm in the Tasman, the Wanganella. will arrive to-morrow, a day late from Sydney. In a radio message from the Wanganella the master said: “We have been battling against head-on seas' and 75 miles an hour gale since Sunday. The Wanganella. was compelled to reduce speed to five knots for 40 hours. The trip is the roughest, for some years. •‘The storm struck the vessel at 5 a.m. on Sunday, SO miles off Sydney and continued at 60 to 75 miles an hour until noon on Monday. In th© afternoon the wind cased, leaving an exceptionally heavy swell. The M anganella. is pitching very heavily and shipping a good deal of water forward. The weather to-day is relatively calm, but iher,e is still a bad swell. There were few passengers in the dining saloon until lunch yesterday. 1 *
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 June 1937, Page 2
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