A Disastrous Voyage
[per united press association.! Dttnedin, January 3. The ship Turakina, Captain Power, from London has arrived. Her passage which has occupied only 84 days, has been a very stormy one, and she came into port bearing particularly evident pigns of the heavy weather she has had to encounter. On November 19 a heavy &.W. gale set in, and at 8 p.m. of that day, whilst the chief officer (Mr JFielden), the third officer (Mr Pilliat), and a seaman named Pope were in the act of stowing the jib the vflssel plunged heavily, washing all three men over board, The next sea washed the third officer aboard again. It was impossible to offer any assistance, the night being pitchdark and a mountainous sea running. During the same gale one of her boats was washed clean out of the davit?, the forepart of the deckhouse got stove in, the flying jibboom carried away, and it was with difficulty that the foretop gallant mast was saved. The gale lasted for four days, during whioh the vessel's decks were continually flooded.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 85, 5 January 1888, Page 2
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