THROUGH THE CYCLONE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 156, 21 March 1918, Page 6

THROUGH THE CYCLONE

SEAMAN WASHED OVERBOARD. In a mountainous sea in Cook Strait on Monday night a seaman was washed from the deck of his ship and drowned, his mates being poweiless to rescue him. His name was E. Wright and ho lived in Auckland. Two steam vessels, each only of little more than 100 odd tons, had been working together in Tasman Bay, and on Monday night a hard wind and heavy rain wore the heralds of the cyclone through which both vessels passed without damage. These small boats under orders to sail for different ports later in the week, left Tasman Bay for their destination as the weather thickened. The ship on which Wright was a seaman met the full force of the cyclone and it was when she was being pitched and tossed about that he disappeared. Details of the fatality have yet to arrive at Wellington, but inquiries concerning the 11c.: of-kin of the missing man' are being made in Auckland. The vessel arrived at Nelson on Tuesday and the other one, which had an even rougher time, arrived at Wellington yesterday afternoon. She was caught'm the centre of the cyclone and was for 24 hours fighting Tier way through it. During the time that the vessel was in the vortex of the whirling wind and rain the compass gradually moved from east —south-east to southnest.