CRIPPLED BARQUE
RUDDERLESS OFF NEW ZEALAND COAST STRIPPED OF CANVAS IN A ' GALE PERILOUS VOYAGE TO SYDNEY t By Telegraph.— Press Association COPTBIGHT Sydney, May 4. The bargue Hamburg, which left Melbourne for the United Kingdom, laden with wheat, on April 18, has returned to Sydney after a thrilling experience. After rounding New Zealand, three hundred miles off the Bluff, she struck a violent gale, which stripped her canvas. She continued for several days, wallowing among mountainous seas, and then her rudder-stock snapped. Out of control, the barque was knocked about bv the gale, and it was impossible to make repairs. On the third day the weather moderated. The crew, which was mostly composed of German apprentices, succeeded with much difficulty in rigging st jury steering gear, and, taking advantage of a favourable wind, the captain decided to make for Sydney, though New Zealand was nea.ter, and sailed with the jury rudder nearly a thousand miles. Fortunately, the cargo had not shifted, otherwise the vessel would have been doomed.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 183, 5 May 1925, Page 9
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