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Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1930, Page 5

which a man could not put his arms around. There must have been 20 tons on the headgear of the ship alone, and that weight made her sti k her nose into every sea. I was afx*a:d we might lose the headgear, and if that went it would pull our masts over. It was a tough time in those days. All we could do was to keen her head into the wind.

“Even with the engine full ahead, and with no solar observations and the compass acting crazingly, as it always does in these latitudes, it was hard to ell where we were, hut it: was a shock on the loth, when we sighted land, to realise how far we had been blown off our course. I know it, has happened before ruder su h conditions, but j-st ihe ;an:e. 1 was disappointed. The weather cleiral s-:on and then we saw the high peaks of what turned out to he Ross Island. Once under the lee of the land we got to work (hopping away the ice, and must have cleared two hundred tons off her, hut it was a rough ride while it lasted.”