THE EASBY IN A GALE.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1706, 6 August 1875, Page 2

THE EASBY IN A GALE.

VESSEL QUITE UNMANAGEABLE. The 5.9. Easby took her departure from this port on the 29bh inst., bound for Wellington, New Zealand. She had on board 697 tons coal, 2581 bags sugar, 446 cases4 fruit, 112 bags maize, and sundries; but in addition she carried three tiers of ironbark: logs on her fore deck, and also twelve pagsengers. She cleared the Sydney Heads at 7 a.m. with a westerly wind, barometer 29.60. As the vessel proceeded to the eastward the wind hauled to the S.W., and the sea got up to such an extent that th* ship took in large quantities of water,, washing away ail the fruit stowed ou* the fore hatch, starting the engine* room hatch, and completely smadß ing up the covering of the steeringt gear, in fact the ship was like a half-tide rock, the waves making clean breaches over her, everything moveable on deck being swept away. At noon the ship was hove to with her head to the southward, but as the tea still increased, Captain Kennedy deemed it prudent to bear up for this port again, and? he had to use much caution to get her into port, by heading the vessel to the seain-tte height of the squalls, the ship making such , bad weather from the fact of her being over? loaded and helpless. She made the land yesterday off Wollongong, and with a considerable list to starboard finally arrived alongside the Cosmopolitan wharf. £