WARSHIP'S HISTORIC FEAT.
STORY OF H.M.S. CALLIOPE,
ESCAPE FROM APIA HARBOUR.
To-day marks the anniversary of a dramatic and oft-told episode .in the annals of seamanship, when H.M.S. Calliope, on March 16, 1889, steamed out of Apia Harbour to safety in the teeth of a furious storm. All the other vessels in the harbour, including German and United States warships,. were driven ashore and wrecked. , •
The fact that the Calliope was able to fight her way out foot liy foot through, the gap in the reef has always been held to be proof not only of the fine seamanship of her captain, Captain Kane, but also, of the unrivalled steam-raising qualities of Westport coal with which the Calliope boilers were fired. It is recorded that as the Calliope moved slowly out tho crews on the doomed ships she was passing gathered to cheer her onward. The Calliope gave her name to the dock at Devonport, because she was the first vessel to enter it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20823, 16 March 1931, Page 10
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164WARSHIP'S HISTORIC FEAT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20823, 16 March 1931, Page 10
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