WANGANELLA HAS STORMY TRIP

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 239, 10 May 1933, Page 2

WANGANELLA HAS STORMY TRIP

Worst Ship has Experienced A SPLENDID SEA BOAT Press Association.—Copyrlght. Wellington, May 9. After the stormiest trip she has experienced the Wanganella arrived at Wellington to-day from Sydney. The vessel ran into a south-south-westerly gale last Saturday. The wind increased in force on Sunday and was at its height on Monday, when the vessel 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 the passengers and crew received minor injuries and some damage was done to furniture. The Wanganella’s officers agreed that It wan the worst trip the ship had experienced. One told a reporter that it was the worst weather he had mot for 20 years. The waves were so high that they Lowered over the bridge, 50 ice!, above the water. AIJ 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, that vessel reported that she had cxpci fenced very heavy weather.