A LONG VOYAGE.
i [Per Pbess Association.] AUCKLAND, June 21. Particulars of the voyage tsf the Enterprise show that the vessel left Wangawui on May 27. She met with a gale during the following night and a high sea. On lite following Tuesday she encountered a uorth-north-east gale, and was hove-to, labouring heavily, in the mountainous sea. The weather then moderated, and remained fine until the Enterprisfl reached Kaipara Heads on June 1. Thaa the wind increased to a heavy gale during the night, irhich raged for five days, the vessel drifting, two hundred miles to the westward. On. June 9 the Enterprise was twelve miles from Cape Egmont, when a northerly gale sprang up, and she hove-tol .Next day she v - as under full sail when the topmast backstay carried away, and the topmast snapped, carrying the maintopmast with it. On June 12 a jury topmast was rigged, and the vessel was off Kaipara nest day. No tug came out however, and en June 14 she had to stand out and hang about until June 17, when the tug, met her. i
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6827, 21 June 1900, Page 3
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183A LONG VOYAGE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6827, 21 June 1900, Page 3
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