WOMAN DIES IN GALE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 81, 3 February 1928, Page 2

WOMAN DIES IN GALE

A ROUGH VOYAGE. TERRIFIC BUFFETING. SYDNEY, January 27. The Congress of Scientists at Hobart, just completed, had a dramatic aftermath when the returning learned gentlemen, from all parts of Australia, met a terrific storm between Hobart and Melbourne. They were passengers on the steamer Nairana, which reached Melbourne on. Wednesday after the most gruelling experience she has been through since running on that trip. On the voyage a woman, passenger, who was sick when sheboarded the vessel, died during the height or the gale, while) all members of the crew characterised it as the worst storm they had ever experienced. So great was the tax on; accommodation, in view of the return of most of tlie scientists, that beds were made up 071 setteeis and lounges in various parts of the vessel. The Nairana was rolled, tossed and buffeted to such an extent im the storm that half-speed was called for. Passengers sleeping on the. lounges and settees were thrown off repeatedly. One woman had her nose broken by such a fall, while" 1i huge wave made the ship list so violently that a.' man was thrown off his lounge and flung down, two flights of stairs. Mrs Susan A. Simpson, of Ararat, was the woman who died" on the trip over, the gruelling (ho ship received being one of the main causes of her demiseThere was general relief "when Port Philip Heads were sighted on Wednesday morning, and a whole-heart-eld rush to get ashore when the vessel berthed.