STORMY SEAS
Schooner Buffeted ENGINES FLOODED TWO INJURED, DECK CARGO LOST (From Our Oion Correspondent.) GISBORNE, Monday. Encountering stormy seas, the auxiliary schooner Kaia, on her way from Tolaga Bay to Napier, had her engineroom flooded, her deck cargo carried away, and her captain and a man of the crew injured. She ran into a southerly gale off Portland Island. Heavy seas broke aboard the vessel, smashing the wheel, and ripping some of the deck fixtures out. The electric lights were extinguished. Steering way was lost, and the crew prepared to take to the boats, when the schooner floated close to the reef off Portland Island. The captain was slightly hurt, and serious injury to an arm was suffered by one of the crew. The Kaia was hove-to most of the night, and then sheltered, under Young Nick’s Head, where one engine was put in working order again.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 12, 5 April 1927, Page 1
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