HEAVY SEAS AT PORT

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1933, Page 6

HEAVY SEAS AT PORT

departing vessels tossed.

PARRACOMBE AND KALINGO.

With heavy seas pounding the protecting apron, Waves foaming over the breakwater and spray tossed aloft by a following westerly wind, the scene at the breakwater was a wild and spectacular one yesterday.’ Gusty, often heavy showers came at intervals, alternating occasionally with patches of quite brilliant sunshine. . Dusk was falling and the port and ships’ lights were twinkling when the Parracombe cast off and moved away from the wharf. With only one more port of call for discharge she was very lightly loaded, and hardly had she cleared the end of the wharf when she struck the heavy roll off the end of the breakwater. High out of the water, she rolled heavily, the propeller racing at times almost clear of the waves. Having discharged only 191 tons of a full cargo of Newcastle coal, the intercolonial steamer Kalingo was in a more fortunate position, but she too dipped deep as she' rounded the breakwater a few minutes after the Parracombe. Both vessels found the going easifer, however, as they altered their course into the wind, the one heading for Wanganui and the second for Wellington.