WILD WEATHER IN TASMAN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 7

WILD WEATHER IN TASMAN

HEK STORMIEST TRIP WANGANELLA ’S EXPERIENCES [ Per Press Association. 1 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’-westeily gale last Saturday, which increased in force on Sunday and was at its height on Monday, when the vessel was ho veto for nine hours. A particularly heavy sea carried away about eight feet of (he wooden railings on the promenade deck and stove in two big windows on that deck. A number of passengers and tho crew received minor injuries. Some damage was done to tho furniture. The Wanganella’s officers agreed that it was the worst trip she has yet experienced. One told a reporter it was tho worst weather ho had met in twenty years. The waves were so high that they towered over tho bridge fifty feet above water. All agreed that the Wanganella is a splendid sea boat. When the Wanganella passed the Maiinganui, which left Wellington last •Saturday with a volunteer crew for Sydney, that vessel reported that she had experienced very heavy weather.