AN EXCITING VOYAGE
SCHOONER IN A WINTER GALE,
(Itec. August 14, 1.5 a.m.) Sydney, August 13. Tho scow Cathkit reports having had an exciting sixty-three days' voyage om New Zealand. Sho sailed on June 10 with a cargo of timber. Terrific r,tonus and gales were encountered, and huge sens continually swept the vessel, badly straining the ship and moving tho cargo. The pumps were worked incessantly. At -one time the vessel was fight oT Ler course, five hundred miles east of .Norfolk Island. Another night, during a gale, she struck a submerged obiect vith terrific force, but tho crew tver'e unable to ascertain the cause. Oil bags were used with good results—Press Assn,
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 279, 14 August 1918, Page 6
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113AN EXCITING VOYAGE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 279, 14 August 1918, Page 6
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