MAURETANIA IN A GALE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10763, 10 May 1911, Page 6

MAURETANIA IN A GALE.

on March 4, -ahcLwas due in New York, under normal coiiditjops, on the".,following Thursday', in lame .to discharge Tier passengers, did not. pass/Sandy Hook until. 5' hours befiind:'her usual time. The' giant Jiner - ran, s into a. heavy. westerly., gale on the; Monday,. \v.hieh. in-ciieased..-so .thai midnight enormous ] wwes >ver.ei'ATeaqhin'g'.:,higher than the "bridge.' ' [., _ r . ',\'.! t ,.' : . ..' ; Captain , Turner \<reports "that just ahout". midnight-. 6u. Monday- frequently waves. Poit -in.'n'ejglrt sw.ept oyer the weather'how and" dashedV/up to the bridge, falling with thousands of tons weight.of, water on the. deck.- . .. , One' of these' great -waves- caused the steel boat deck , to-'buckle/, on the .weather side, smashed:a. portion of the bulwark, and destroyed quite. 50ft pi the rail on the forward promenade deck. Another monster wave invaded the wheel-house on the upper- bridge, smashing six windows in r the wheelhouse arid nearly'carrying the men at the wheel away.,,, : -j ;:.^.yMany passengers "complained oi having: been flung ; from their;-.berths, and some 'dressed" and' saf':up" f6r the remainder of the ought, ensconced in comfortable armchairs, which-.were' fastened to ihe deck./ Tie. weather continued very rough, oh Tuesday, hut' the worst of the gale'was over. . The great liner, looked- but. little the worse,:.nowever,: for Jkei. experience as she can up-the harbor. ■. / -.'.....