Tibbutt, photo. A STORM-BATTERED BARQU E REACHES WELLINGTON. The Norwegian barque Glenshee which left Liverpool on July 8th, reached Wellington last week after a very trying experience. A succession of gales culminated in a hurricane with mountainous seas, during which the vessel was severe y battered. Her starboard bulwarks were badly smashed for a length of forty feet, on stanchions were snapped like pipestems, the boat skids were smashed and six boats carried away.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 26 October 1910, Page 23
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74Tibbutt, photo. A STORM-BATTERED BARQUE REACHES WELLINGTON. The Norwegian barque Glenshee which left Liverpool on July 8th, reached Wellington last week after a very trying experience. A succession of gales culminated in a hurricane with mountainous seas, during which the vessel was severey battered. Her starboard bulwarks were badly smashed for a length of forty feet, on stanchions were snapped like pipestems, the boat skids were smashed and six boats carried away. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 26 October 1910, Page 23
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