UPPER DECK SWEPT
AIAT AI ENCOUNTERS GALE NO SERIOUS DAMAGE DONE (By Telegraph—Press Association! AUCKLAND, This Day. Huge seas which threatened to overwhelm her were encountered by the steamer Alatai in the Bay of. Plenty in the course of her periodical visit to the East Coast lighthouses. On entering the Bay of Plenty, after rounding Cape Runaway the Alatai met a combination of a heavy northerly sweli and a north-eas-terly gale. She shipped seas continually and the climax was reached when oneenormous wave swept the upper deck and even the bridge. No serious damage was done. 1
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 28 June 1935, Page 4
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