STORMY TRIP

Southland Times, Issue 22011, 10 May 1933, Page 5

STORMY TRIP

THE WANGANELLA RAILINGS AND WINDOWS BROKEN ARRIVAL AT WELLINGTON (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, May 9. After the stormiest trip she has yet experienced, the Huddart-Parker liner Wanganella arrived at Wellington today from Sydney. The Wanganella ran into a south-south-westerly gale last Saturday, which increased in force on Sunday and was at its height on Monday, when the vessel was hove-to for nine hours. A particularly heavy sea carried away about eight feet of the wooden railing on the promenade deck and stove in two big windows on that deck. A number of passengers and members of the crew received minor injuries. Some damage was done to the furniture. The Wanganella’s officers agreed that it was the worst trip she has yet experienced. One told a reporter that it was the worst weather he had met in 20 years. The seas were so high that they towered to the bridge, 50ft above water. All agreed that the Wanganella was a splendid sea boat. When the Wanganella passed the Maunganui, which left Wellington last Saturday with a volunteer crew for Sydney, she signalled that she had experienced very heavy weather. MARIPOSA BUFFETED VESSEL ROLLS BADLY. (Special to the Times.) Wellington, May 9. The Oceanic Line de luxe steamer Mariposa experienced the worst trip yet undertaken in the trans-Pacific route during the voyage from Sydney to Auckland. The vessel, which berthed at Auckland to-day, ran into a very heavy swell, accompanied by a gale of unusual severity, soon after leaving Sydney on Saturday morning. Until North Cape was reached conditions on board were most unpleasant for the passengers and crew. On Monday the 19,000-ton vessel rolled badly. During lunch conditions became really hectic, for during an extraordinarily severe roll, the chairs and dishes in the dining-room broke away amidst violent disorder. Passengers and stewards sprawled amidst broken crockery and partly consumed entrees. In the galley the damage was particularly severe. The vessel presented a desolated appearance in the afternoon. All moveable objects in the public rooms were securely lashed together. No structural damage was reported, but several passengers and members of the crew received cuts and bruises.