BATTLE WITH STORM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 123, 24 April 1936, Page 2

BATTLE WITH STORM.

COASTAL CREW’S EXPERIENCE. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 23, . The coastal vessel Hauturu, en route from Onehunga to New Plymouth, battled for 5\ hours during last night’s storm with one of her two engines out of action. The passage took 24 hours instead of the usual 16, and though the vessel’s instruments told the officers that they were near the coast they did not sight land for the major portion of the voyage, the visibility being nil. The Hauturu left Manukau yesterday in moderate westerly weather, but in a few hours it changed to a northerly gale. The Hauturu, which has made many rough passages, was making fair progress in an awkward sea when one engine broke down completely, leaving her in danger of swamping from huge following seas. The other engine was nursed while the whole of the engine room crew laboured to repair the disabled unit. The task took 5| hours. All this time the Hauturu, with just a margin of wav on to keep from broaching, was pounded by heavy seas, many sweeping across the low decks. The voyage was one of the roughest ever experienced.