STORM IN PACIFIC
DAMAGE TO NIAGARA. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 20. Vacant davits on tlie after-deck of the liner Niagara and a smashed lifeboat forward remained to bear witness, when the vessel arrived at Auckland, of a storm of exceptional severity encountered on the southward voyage between Vancouver and Honolulu. A certain amount of other damage was done to the deck fittings, hut no one was injured and structural repairs had been effected in most instances before the liner reached port. The Niagara left Vancouver on January 1 and ran into the storm two days later. The wind gradually increased to gale force, and when the storm was at its height the liner was forced to heave to for about 12 hours. Captain Martin, although he regarded the storm as being part of the day’s work, stated there was an 80-mile-an-hour gale and that the seas at the time were 70ft high. At intervals the seas broke over the decks of the liiier. Ventilators 011 the forward part of the ship ware damaged. One particularly heavy wave smashed in a vestibule door on the starboard, side and poured a huge weight of water into the ship. However, the flooding was not serious.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 10
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203STORM IN PACIFIC Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 10
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