SHIP’S LONG VOYAGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 256, 26 September 1933, Page 2

SHIP’S LONG VOYAGE.

SERIES OF INCIDENTS

AUCKLAND, Sept. 23

Although her voyage from Tampico to Auckland was mainly uneventful, the Bank Line motor-ship Inverbank, which arrived at Auckland yesterday afternoon, has experienced more than her share of difficulties during the last few months. Early this year she left Cardiff for Puget Sound, in the United States, to load timber for Japan. On arrival the master, Captain J. J. Tullocli, had to be put ashore, suffering from appendicitis, and the chief officer took temporary command on the voyage to Japan. After leaving Puget Sound the Inverbank encountered a hurricane which raged for three days. While he was on deck during the storm the second officer was caught by a sea and washed into the scuppers of the afterdeck, narrowly escaping being swept overboard. Captain W. R. Forsyth, the present master, took command of the ship in Japan. After discharging her timber cargo the Inverbank loaded sugar in the Philippines for the United States and then went to Tampico to load 8000 tons of bitumen for New Zealand and Australia. Moderate weather was experienced on the voyage from Tampico to Auckland, the only misfortune being that the Chinese chief steward contracted bronchitis during the trip.