SWEPT BY HUGE SEAS.
A -BARQUENTINE'S TRYING EXPERIENCE. ..... QMeßrapfr—Press Association.) Dunedin, April 2. .The fonr-niasted American' barquentino Benicia arrived off the Heads this' afternoon. from Puget fiaund,; and was tewed , ,n'p to Carey's Bay in the evening. She , left Puget Sound on January 26, ' and met','fair average iveather until March 24, when she'ran into a severe southerly gals. Huge seas broko ovor, tho vessel, ; which wiis labouring - heavily, i.her well- j deck for somo time lieing- full of water; ■ 'During the height of tho galo a largo portion of the deck; cargo'was torn fpm its lashings by the-force of the,seas feweep•ing oyer tlie vessel. large quantity of water found its -way ,below, ' and .. tho pumps luid to be resorted to.\ The Bcni- ; cia brought 780,000 ft. of Oregon pino for this port. ■ 1
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1714, 3 April 1913, Page 5
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133SWEPT BY HUGE SEAS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1714, 3 April 1913, Page 5
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