A ROUGH TRIP.
A HURRICANE. IN COOK’S STRAIT,
[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Napier, last night. The barque Kate Tatham has arrived from Newcastle. She experienced squally and dirty weather across the Tasman Sea, entering Cook’s Strait on the 16th inst. at midnight. On the 17th a hurricane was experienced, which Captain Blunn describes as equal to the cyclones in the Bay of Bengal. The barometer gave no warning until the storm burst. Fortunately no sails were set except the fore lower top sail, the mainsail being double reefed ready for setting. After the first few gusts there was nothing to show that any sails had been set. A now boat’s cover was rigged in the main rigging, which helped to keep the vessel up to the wind, and until Saturday forenoon the barque was under bare poles, with the sea making a clean breach over her. The vessel weathered the storm well, only smashing two of the bulwarks, the ports, and everything movable on deck.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 113, 22 May 1901, Page 2
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