WORST TRIP YET.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 757, 10 May 1933, Page 2

WORST TRIP YET.

Wanganella Damaged at Sea. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 9. After the stormiest trip she has yet experienced the Wanganella arrived at Wellington to-day from Sydney. The Wanganella ran into a sou’-sou'-westerly gale last Saturday which increased in force on Sunday and was at its height on Monday when the vessel was hove to for nine hours. A particularly heavy sea carried away about eight feet of wooden railing on the promenade deck and stove in two big windows on that deck. A number of passengers and members of the crew received minor injuries and some damage was done to the furniture. The Wanganella*s officers agreed that it was the worst trip the vessel has yet experienced. One officer told a reporter that it was the worst weather he had experienced in twenty years. The waves were so high that they towered above the bridge, which is fifty feet above the water line. All agreed that the Wanganella is a splendid sea boat. When the Wanganella passed the Maunganui which left Wellington last Saturday with a volunteer crew for Sydney, that vessel reported that she had experienced very heavy weather.