NIAGARA STRIKES IT ROUGH.
80-AILLE GALE, 70-FOOT SEAS
Electric Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, Last Night. Vacant davits on the after-deck of the liner Niagara and a smashed lifeboat forward remained to bear witness when the vessel arrived at Auckland, of a storm of exceptional severity encountered on the southward voyage between Vancouver and Honolulu. A certain amount of other damage was done to the deck fittings but no one was injured and structural repairs had been effected in most instances before the liner reached port The Niagara. left Vancouver on January 1 and ran into a storm two days liter. The wind gradually increased to gale force and when the storm was at its height the liner was forced to heave to for about 12 hours.
Captain Alartin, although he regarded the storm as being part of the day’s work, stated there was an 80-inile-au-hour gale and that the seas at times were <0 teet high. At intervals the seas broke over the deck of the liner. The ventilators on the forward part- of the ship were damaged and one particularly heavy wave smashed in the vestibule door on the starboard side and poured a huge weight of water into the ship. However, the flooding was not seri-
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13162, 21 January 1936, Page 5
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