NIAGARA IN HEAVY GALE
j WAVES 70 FEET HIGH, SAYS I CAPTAIN I [Special to “Northern Advocate.”] AUCKLAND. This Day. A certain amount of damage to deck fittings, and one smashed lifeboat, bore witness of the exceptional severity of a storm ,encountered between Vancouver and Honolulu by the Royal Mail liner Niagara, when the vessel arrived at Auckland yesterday afternoon. The Niagara left Vancouver on January 1, and ran into the storm two days later. The wind gradually increased to gale force, and the liner was forced to heave to for about 12 hours. Captain W. Martin, stated that there was an 80-mile-an-hour gale, and that the seas, at times, were 70 feet high. These broke over the deck, damaging ventilators on the forward part of the ship, and one particularly heavy wave smashed a vestibule door on the starboard side, and poured a huge weight of water into the ship. The Hooding was not serious. Apart from the damage to deck fittings, the liner rode out of the storm without difficulty, and the rest of her trip to Auckland was without incident.
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Northern Advocate, 21 January 1936, Page 9
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