H.M.S. Dart
♦ HER ARRIVAL IN SYDNEY. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. [ PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. [ Sydney, June 30. The officers of H.M.S. Dart report that the vessel experienced exceptionally heavy gales nearly all. tho way across from New Zealand. When off the North Cape, which was on a lee shore, the gunboat had the utmost difficulty in steaming out of danger. Off the Three Kings a tremendous sea swept the decks of the Dart, and carried away one of the boats from the davits. While the storm raged the Dart only travelled 13 miles in seven days. On the voyage across and in fine weather one of the crew fell overboard, and a lad sprang in after him witba life buoy; both were rescued. Off the Australian coast the Dart experienced a terrific gale, and lost another of her boats. In this storm five of her crew were injured, and some of her sails were blown away. The officers assert that the rigging of the vessel which was supplied from naval stores, was rotten, although new.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 7, 2 July 1889, Page 3
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175H.M.S. Dart Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 7, 2 July 1889, Page 3
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