STORMY VOYAGE
KALINGO BUFFETED GALES IN THE TASMAN [bx telegraph—oW>- correspondent] NEW PLYMOUTH. Sunday A terrifie pounding by mountainous seas was suffered by the intercolonial steamer Kalingo, which arrived at New Plymouth on Saturday, three days late, from Sydney. "It was the worst Tasman crossing I have made during the 17 yeairs I have been on the run," said the chief engineer after the vessel berthed. Immediately on leaving Sydney Heads th 6 Kalingo ran into a south-westerly gale. The storm became worse, and for two days the ship was hove-to, being pounded the whole time by huge waves which continually swept over the decks and battered the deck cargo. A number of drums of acid were swept overboard. The crew was occupied most of the time securing cargo.
Despite the buffeting she received the only structural damage to the vessel was a smashed deck door. The southwesterly wind persisted for four days, and then there "was a change to the east, and the wind was of gale force until the ship was nearing New Plymouth.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22215, 16 September 1935, Page 8
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