NEVER AGAIN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 13

NEVER AGAIN.

TUG FROM SOUTHAMPTON. CAPTAIN’S RESOLVE. ADELAIDE, June 4. Completing an 11,500 mile voyage from Southampton, the tug Morglay reached Port Adelaide after many adventures. Captain W. Finsell, who is in command, said that never again would he pilot such a small craft overseas. The vessel was nearly lost in a terrific storm off the coast of Algeria, when the stokehold and tho crew’s quarters were flooded, and twenty tons of coal were swept off tho after deck. Coal ran short in the Arabian Sea, and the tug was forced to make for Bangalore. On arrival there, no coal could be obtained, so they went on to Calicut. "When the captain was being rowed ashore,’ the ship’s lifeboat opened out and sank near the jetty. The tug had to borrow ten tons of coal from a British India steamer to enable her to reach Colombo. After leaving Batavia with coal bunkered there, the vessel was only doing 1J knots, so’returned and exchanged tho coal for Australian coal.

Ever since Australia was sighted at Cape Inscription, fierce storms were encountered, but the tug proved a fine sea boat. The tug will be used by the harbour authorities here, in connection with dredging operations.