TASMAN IN ANGRIEST MOOD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 17 January 1939, Page 5

TASMAN IN ANGRIEST MOOD

WANGANELLA’S ROUGH CROSSING FURNITURE TIED DOWN l United Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Although they missed the record temperature of 113.6 degrees at Sydney on Saturday afternoon, passengers by the Wanganella which left Sydney on Friday night experienced something' else instead—a stormy crossing. The Tasman, they say, was in one of its angriest moods. By Saturday night there was a strong west-south-west wind blowing and heavy seas were lashing the ship. This continued till last night, and both ship and passengers received a buffeting. Furniture had to be tied down and a number of chairs were stowed away. Among the passengers there were a number of casualties, but none serious. They were attended to by the ship’s doctor. One woman bore a bruise from having been thrown out of her bunk at three o’clock in the morning and her husband suffered a cut on the back of his hand. The only visible indication of the tough crossing given -by the ship herself was damage to the open air swimming bath on the after deck, one side of which was smashed in by the force of a wave which swept across the deck. In spite of the stormy conditions, said a member of the crew, quite fifty per cent, of the passengers regularly had their meals in the dining saloon.