A Craft in Trouble.
Port Chalmers, This Day. lne Sarah and Mary, with a cargo of wheat from Lyttelton for the Bluff, put in here, having lost the whole of her sails, which were blown to ribbons on the 23rd inst. About 25 miles east of the Bluff she encountered a hurricane from the westward which held until the 24th. Her lee. rail for hours being under water. On the night of the 24th the master, Captain Smith, was compelled to run before the gale to c'ear the centre of , the cyclone until midnight, when she was again headed towards the land. She anchored under Moeraki Peninsular until the morning of the 26, when she got under way with a northerly breeze and ren inside Tairoa Heads to procure fresh canvas.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 97, 27 April 1894, Page 2
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131A Craft in Trouble. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 97, 27 April 1894, Page 2
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