BUFFETED BY SEA AND WIND

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 276, 16 August 1920, Page 4

BUFFETED BY SEA AND WIND

WAIKAWA'S EXPERIENCES,

Perhaps the vessel which suffered most from the storm of Thursday and Friday was the Waikawa, which arrived in port on Friday evening from San Francisco. The Waikawa ran into the storm when twenty-four hours from Wellington, and received a severe buf' feting by wind and sea before she made port. . The Waikawa is heavily laden, and also carrios a deck cargo of timber and oranges. As a result she was low in the water, and the seas broko right over her, often breaking over the bridge. Luckily her l deck cargo was firmly socured, and it shifted hardly at all. When she turned to enter the Heads the seas were behind her, and they swept over her from 6tern to stem. The Home liner Leitrim, which arrived on Friday from Auckland, also received a buffeting, but being higher in the water than the Waikawa she did not suffer so much as that vessel. The officers aboard the Leitrim report that undoubtedly it was the worst storm they had experienced this voyage. Another vessel which suffered from the storm was the trawler Nora Niven, which was out fishing when the gale came up. She ran for shelter and was able to reach Ohau Bay, where she remained in company witli the Invercargill from 5.30 p.m. on Friday imtil Saturday morning. Nonetheless, the little craft was subjected to a very severe buffeting before she made shelter.