STORMS AT SEA.
MOTOR-BHIP BUFFETED.
VOYAGE OF ELMBANK,
(By Telegraph.—-Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Saturday.
Stormy weather xvas encountered by the British Motorship Elmbank on the trip-from Nauru Island with 8600 tons l
of phosphate. She sailed on May 14 and later o nthe night of the 17th. shipped a heavy swell which flooded the forecastle knee-deep, damaging the crew’s effects.
Conditions rclmained stormy until midnight on Thursday and the freighter occasionally shipped large quantities of water. Early yesterday afternoon she passed the Japanese cruisers which were then north of Molco Hinau.
The Elmbank after completing her dischargo at New Plymouth, Wanganui and Sydney, will load copra in the Solomons and New Guinea and sail for the Continent via Capetown. Her English officers have already been 21 months on this side of the world.
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Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19586, 27 May 1935, Page 8
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