TASMAN GALE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 156, 18 June 1935, Page 7

TASMAN GALE

ROUGH CROSSINGS

SHIPS IN A HURRICANE

Monowai Severely Buffeted

DAMAGE ON N.S.W. COAST

(by Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 18,10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 18. Shipping is being heavily battered by a hurricane raging over the Tasman Sea from the southwest. With smashed porthole windows and salt-encrusted upper works, the Monowai reached Sydney after one of the roughest crossings for years.

The Monowai ran into a storm on Saturday evening and then steamed through a six-niiles-an-hour gale until yesterday morning. The seas were so heavy that water poured into all the forward ventilators, which had to be removed and the apertures plugged. Passengers were forced to remain below because the decks were awash, and spray was flying as high as the tops of the masts.

Captain Davey said that at times the forward part of the liner was lost to sight beneath the waves. Two portholes were stove In and two windows with glass an inch thick were smashed. The Mariposa also received a severe bufleting. She will berth this morning. The steering gear of the Gabriella, bound from Newcastle to Sydney, carried away when the vessel was several miles out, but repairs were completed and the voyage was resumed. From the shore it appeared that the Gabriella immediately after leaving port was badly buffeted. Huge seas running along the coast at Newcastle reached the maximum when waves broke on the outskirts of an unemployed camp at Nobby’s, half a mile inside the Newcastle harbour entrance. Several huts were smashed to pieces and the residents were imperilled. A man, a woman and a child were trapped in their home with the water waist deep when rescued. Heavy seas around the Victorian coast delayed Melbourne inward shipping. Nine vessels due yesterday will not arrive until to-day.