HURRICANE SWEEPS LUMBER STEAMER HORNELEN FROM STEM TO STERN.
Ihmml from I’ugot Sound to Auckland with (Hegon pine, the Norwegian steamer struck a hurricane in the tropics on January 29th, lost half her deck load of a million feet of timber, both her masts, and had her starboard bulwarks crumpled up like paper. She was literally swept fore and aft, and came into port with practically only the funnel and biidge left. (It The after bulwarks. (21 Tricks the storm played with nt eel plates nearly an Indi thick. (3) Captain Neilsen and tin* men who brought her through, th All that was left on the poop. (5) One of the masts which snapped like carrots. (0) The Customs officers measuring what remained of a towering deck-load.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 7, 14 February 1912, Page 28
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127HURRICANE SWEEPS LUMBER STEAMER HORNELEN FROM STEM TO STERN. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 7, 14 February 1912, Page 28
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