HEAVY SEAS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3947, 2 June 1913, Page 5

HEAVY SEAS.

SHIPPING HAS A BAD TIME. BIG COMBERS RUNNING ALONG THE COiVST. The heavy swell which was noticeable on FricTav betokened a disturbance of some kind or another at sea. A very heavy sea came on Saturday, and big breakers were thundering all along the Coast.

The s.s. Takapuna had a lively time on her way to Napier on Friday night. The vessel left Gisborne at 10.30 on Friday night, and had a very stormy passage of twelve arid a-half hours, Napier not being reached until 11 o'clock on Saturday morning. Th s.s. Maitai also had a lively time coming from Napier to Gisborne on Friday night. An exceptionally heavy sea was run into off Portland Island. This caught the vessel on the beam, and caused her to roll in an alarming fashion. The giant seas broke over the vessel and flooded the saloon, sweeping through several of the cabins and saturating the belongings ofl a number of the passengers. The seas poured through a broken skylight, and there was as much as tvya feet of water in some of the cabins. Passengers had to take their boots and stockings off and do some paddling in order to get aboiint. A big sea was running in the roadstead, and Captain Carson had to take the Maitai over under the shelter of Young Head before the Tuatea could tranship the passengers. It was too rough to lighter tlie cargo, which had to be carried on.

The Tuatea behaved splendidly in the rough sea, hut it took her threequarters of an hour’s battling before she recrossed the bay with the inward passengers. ' Tlie sea had moderated a good deal yesterday, but white horses could still be seen rearing theiF manes in the bay. ' .-