TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 20, 18 October 1907, Page 7

TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE.

'EXPERIENCE OF THE WIHMERA, ! , FIFTEEN SHEEP KILLED. Tho HuddarJ;, Parker steamer ..Wimmera • fernved from Sydney yesterday 'at 4.30 a.m.: She left, Sydney at 8.30. p.m. last Saturday, and experienced fine weather until , midnight on "Sunday; The wind' then i;:. to tho • south-west, and gradually :> , increased to a gale, accompanied by high , fceasl '■ • The first sea that broke on board, during ;• L Monday afternoon,. did considerable damage. iiii Several. hundred ■ cases of fruit were : swept . < overboard. Some of them fell into a pen of Bheop that were stowed, in the fore-part of tho steamer. Of a total number of twentynix merino flock rams, that were consigned to.Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Dunedin,' by Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Sydney, fifteen were ' killed by. the falling cases of . . . fruit. "V " .- j Tho vessel had to bo hove-to on the Mon--1 'day night, and, as the gale did riot moderate, . tho same course was necessary again on Tues-day-morning. ■' Tho storm was then at its boight. Another sea broke aboard, and : i Bwept some ;casesi of fruit away and damaged , . ; i the gangway, railing. : The woather. moderated , on, Wednesday :taorning, and,continued fine for the remain*. Her of the voyage. Captain Wylie remarkod that it was one ■ bf, the roughest trips across the Taaman Sea his 'vessel has experienced. The Wimmera's behaviour during the height of the storm was very l good, and she certainly passed through the ordeal'well, and proved her sea- ■ poing:qualities. •>