A ROUGH VOYAGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14359, 2 May 1910, Page 5

A ROUGH VOYAGE.

STEAMER IN A GALE. I MISHAPS TO STEERING GEAR. [by TELEGRAPH,—PRESS association.] * ■■--■' Wellington, Sunday. . The steamer Fifeshire, -which reached Wellington from the North this rfSorning, had a i sensational experience. ; The Fifeshire left Auckland on Saturday, April 23, »>^ v , •rail into a heavy southerly;' gale lasV-i*.**<iay morning when <■ approaching East Cape. When tHp »veamer was making only about.i *WW knots an hour in the teeth-of thelate gale. 'one of the . chains. -belonging to the steam steering "gear snapped, putting i the gear out of action for a few minutes. Later the > cogwheels of the hand steering gear snapped owing to • the fury of the seas acting on the rudder.' The engines were stopped, and for about three hours, while reI pairs were being effected to the steam , steering, lay " broadside oi> to the «ea. She rolled very aM oil bags were used to modify the sea. During repairing operations a seaman named j -Jacobs had a foot injured. f The Fifeshire ran north before the wind until the ; weather moderated, when she put ; about and -. resumed : ; her voyage > South. : She put into the Napier roadstead Von Thursday and transhipped about 300 tons of Napier cargo into lighters.