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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 73, 2 May 1914, Page 5

The commander of the Tr aus-Atlantic ; = liner La Provence reports a very curious. ,"' " effect -which he observed in -the course ■ . of his last voyage (says an English paper). He writes:—"Soon after '-' . quitting New York we ran violent west-north-west blizzard,- with a huge sea and fog preventing us from distinguishing anything more than 16 feet ahead, the temperature being 15deg. Fahrenheit. .We were obliged from the start to take a~ southerly course to avoid the stea'mera and icebergs signalled - in the neighbourhood of thteFlemish Bonnet. At one time, sailing in the Gulf Stream for several hours,-the temperature of the water rose to 62deg. .. Fahrenheit, making a difference of 47 degrees between water and air. At the same time as.-the, sea was throwing off vapours a few feet above the surface it looked as if it were seething. These vapours formed a very .dense fog. Driven by the tempest and in the midst - of a whirlwind of foam made by the crests and hollows of the waves, which we could not distinguish from the, bridge, but .which broke with deafening noise on the decks, we were given the fantastic impression of being boiled in. a huge cauldro% and yet shivering with cold all the time.