THREE NZ. HORSES DIE IN STORMS AT SEA
ROUGH TRIP TO MELBOURNE
Recd. 6.30 p.m. Melbourne, July 23. Three racehorses with good records in New Zealand were battered to death in violent storms which buffeted the freighter Waitaki in a seven-day trip from Bluff to Melbourne. The horses were Scotch Tweed, Battle Acre and Destiny.
Seamen described the crossing as the worst they had ever experienced. Soon after leaving Bluff the ship encountered a storm and the live cargo of 12 horses and 50 sheep was tossed about in its stalls. At midnight on the second day out it. was discovered that two horses had burst from their stalls and were lying on the deck, struggling and kicking madly in efforts to rise. It took three hours to get Battle Acre back into his wrecked stall. Destiny could not be moved. Both horses were dead next morning. Two days later Scotch Tweed went down and several other horses broke from their stalls and plunged about the confined space of the poop. Scotch Tweed died soon afterwards. One seaman was swept across the deck when a lifeline gave way, but clung to hatch covers and saved himself from being washed overboard. Other seamen had narrow escapes when working among the flying hooves ol the distressed horses.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 24 July 1947, Page 3
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