GALES BUFFET SHIPPING
Received MondaA', 7.4.") p.m. MILBOURNE, Aug. 4. ^Oalos aml heavy seas which buffeted s'K'ping of!' the Australian eoast during tlie week-end are now al>ating. The Bass Strait steamer Nairana was nine liours overdue on the run from Launceston to Milbourne, and a seaman who has lmexi .">() years on the run said that the crossing in tlie Nairana was his worst. Seas swept the vgssel, smhshing a lif'eboat and flooding the galley. Tntvr-state steamers bourid for M6Jliourne are a day overdue and a 400ton ship has l>een sheltering for five days in eoves on the east Tasmanian eoast. The ocean-going yacht Naiad, on its maiden voyage, was dismasted off Broken Bay, north of Sydney, and foiiTid shelter at Terrigal with difficuity af'ter its engine broke down in heavy seas.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 August 1947, Page 5
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