A HUGE WAVE.
STRANGE PHENOMENON,
By TelceraDh-Prcss Associalion-Coryright (Rec. June 2!, 0.20 a.m.) Melbourne, June 20. The warship Encounter had n .sensational experienoo after leaving Auckland for Australia on Jlay 21. At 10 o'clock tho following night the vessel suddenly encountered an extremely heavy sea and a gigantic wave flooded Hie after-part of tho ship, filling tho ward room, and knocking the bottom out of the galley and doing other damage. Tho wave olso nearly washed the men off the bridge.
Tho commander attributes llio phenomenon to a submarine volcanic disturbance «s tho time of tho wave coincided with a seismic disturbance in New Zealand.
On Sunday, May 26, a severe earthquake was felt over the northern part of tho North Island at about 6 p.m. It was stated to be the most severe shock in Auckland since IS9I. Interviewed on the matter Professor A. P. W. Thomas remarked that the times given in such cases as to lrhen tho carthquako occurred had to be taken with ?omo reserve, but it would seem that New Plymouth was nearest to the centre of tho disturbance. This would point to the earthquake centro lying to the west somewhere in the Tasnian Sea.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1472, 21 June 1912, Page 5
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200A HUGE WAVE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1472, 21 June 1912, Page 5
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