BUFFETED BY STORM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18918, 21 January 1936, Page 8

BUFFETED BY STORM

DAMAGE TO NIAGARA

SEAS 70 FEET HIGH

•gale reaches so m.p.li. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND. lasi night. V a oil 111 davits on (ho after (look 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 liftings, hut no one was injured, and structural repairs had been effected in most instances he lore the liner reached poll.

The Niagara left. Vancouver- on January 1. and ran into a storm two days later. The wind gradually increased to gale force. When the storm was at its height, the liner was forced to heave to for about 12 hours. Captain Martin, although lie regard ed (lie slorm as being part of the day’s work, staled ilia I there was an 80 mile-an-hoiir gale, and that, the sens at the time were 70ft. high. At intervals seas broke over the decks of tin liner, ami the ventilators on the for ward part of the ship were damaged Otic 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 wa‘ not serious.