WHAT BEFEL THE GLENSHEE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 953, 21 October 1910, Page 4

WHAT BEFEL THE GLENSHEE.

ON THE TEIP OUT HEEIi.

Glenshoe, barque, now tied up at Wellington wharf, seems to have eeen the ocean at its worst on her trip out from Home. She has had a terrible knocking about, and sho shows it. On September 1 the climax came. "I was lashing tlio donkey-engim* more securely," eaid Mr. Knudsen, tho mate, "when all of a enddqn. a tremendous soa hit the ship, the biggest I have eve* seen. It poured jn amidships, and be- ■ fore I could moke out what had happened I was taken up like a cork and washed up against the starboard rigging. My word, 1 thought I was gone; but I managed to get hold of a rope, and : hung on to it for my life." Meanwhile great dam- > age had been done. Six boats had' beea swept away, and the boatsMds broken liko matchwood. The bulwarks, for a distance- of-forty feet, bear evidence o£ the, force of the water, for they are badly broken and bent When the vessel re- , covered from the shock, and began to rie* by tho bow, the water, which had filled* the decks, sluiced back towards the stem, carried away the poop railing, and, catch* ing one of the men, , who was lashed to the wheel, forced him under tho wheel grating. The careering water also car* riea away the standard compass, and the ship's compass had to be afterwards re- , bed upon for steering purposes. 'Co show with what force the sea came on. board, our representative was shown seine iron stanchions three inches in diameter. These were bent at right "angles, as if tnev had been pieces of wire. "Tee," said tho mate, in conclusion, "wo ar» glad to get here. I have been sailing the ocean for a long time now, but the 6eae that came over us this trip beat anything I have experienced before/ .