A ROUGH PASSAGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 12, 5 April 1927, Page 7

A ROUGH PASSAGE

LOUIS THERIAULT CALLS VESSEL SHORT OF FUEL The auxiliary barquentine Louis Theriault put in an unexpected appearance at Auckland yesterday, en route from Sydney to Gisborne. Adverse winds and stormy weather had so delayed her that she had to call at Auckland yesterday to replenish her fuel supply. After leaving Sydney on March 13 she encountered a hard southerly gale and high seas, which caused her deckload to shift, forcing her to put back to port to have her cargo re-stowed. The vessel set out again on the 18th, but a strong northerly gale was encountered, and she travelled only 360 miles in ten days. A changeable wind, blowing a gale, accompanied by torrential rain, was encountered near the Three One of the crew was washed overboard and nearly drowned, before being hauled in on the lead line. And then on Sunday the vessel ran into a dense fog, and was unable to make port until yesterday. The Louis Theriault is a wooden vessel of 443 tons. She was built at Nova Scotia in 1918. For some years srhe has been in the intercolonial trade. On October 10, 1923, she reached Sydney after a stormy passage of 29 days from Whangape. In July last she was damaged by fire at Newcastle, ancP did not put to sea again until October. In January last the vessel's tail shaft snapped shortly after she left Plokianga, and she had to continue the voyage under sail. Captain Arrey expects to be able to continue the voyage to Gisborne to-day.