BLOWN TO SEA
SCOW’S EXCITING EXPERIENCE
r Auckland, Oct. 29. Hit by a sudden squall when she was becalmed off Tokomaru Bay, the scow Rangi was 'blown 200 miles, out to sea and her suit of sails was torn almost to ribbons. The Rangi was in-ballast on her way ,to Tauranga from Gisborne and she-; was. lying in a dead calm. There was no sign of the squall until it struck her aloft. She heeled over, the sails-, tearing badly, .and for two days was driven away from.’land by a wild south-westerly. The crew had an anxious time trying to mend the sails, but luckily another wind : blew her back •again /and she made- Tauranga in ten days under a much abbreviated mainsail and with the foresail and jib? showing signs of mending. The Rangi made Auckland at 2.30 this morning with a cargo of sawn timber from Tauranga. The Rangi, which belongs to the Leyland O’Brien Timber Coy. was one of the vessels sighted by Von Luckner when 'he was escaping in the launch. In his book be says that she sailed too fast for him, so 1 he took the ...other scow, the Moa, which also belonged to Leyland O’Brien. ______
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1928, Page 2
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