TEMPEST IN TASMAN.
Waitaki Sights Derelict Smack. SHIP DELAYED BY STORM. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July 19, 12.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, July 19. A derelict fishing smack half full of • water was sighted by the freighter ■ Waitaki between Cape Schanck and Point Nepean. The Waitaki, despite the heavy sea, altered her course and steamed within 50 yards of the derelict. There was no ; sign of life aboard. Running two days late, the Waitaki j berthed at Melbourne after a tempestuous crossing from New Zealand. Captain Dalgleish declared: “ I have not seen the Tasman in a wilder mood ! in my 20 years’ experience of it.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 1
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105TEMPEST IN TASMAN. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 1
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