ROUGH CROSSING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 255, 28 October 1936, Page 7

ROUGH CROSSING

i LINER QUEEN MARY . i TWELVE PEOPLE INJURED IBy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 26. The liner Queen Mary had a stormy crossing from New York and docked at Southampton 3* hours late. Eight , passengers and four of the crew were , hurt. Mrs Fieldsend, an elderly thirdclass passenger, was removed from the ship’s hospital to the hospital at ! Southampton. i I Captain Peel said that the liner, as ,i might be expected in the heavy sea H r with a 55-miles-an-hour head wind on : the starboard quarter, rolled con- ] siderably. She was slowed down to ; . about 14 knots while the doctor was [ treating Mrs Fieldsend. The passage occupied 4 days 16 hours 24 minutes, at an average speed i of 27.4 knots. The liner American Shipper, outI ward bound from Liverpool with 22 , passengers, has lost her rudder and is t helpless off Wicklow. Tugs have gone i to her assistance. . The Queen Mary’s sistership, 522, ! has already been insured in British I markets for £3,250,000, while being » constructed. This is the largest | ' amount insured for any merchantman i } in similar circumstances. Brokers are i ! confident that the market will eventually exceed £3,500,000. The vessel, when completed, will be I “ valued at £4,500,000. i GALE IN CHANNEL SHIPPING FORCED TO : SHELTER l British Official Wireless ] RUGBY, Oct. 26. A severe gale in the Channel today forced many vessels to seek shelter and caused the first cancellation of the new train ferry service between Dover and Dunkerque. The ordinary cross-channel mail steamers experienced very bad passages.