LINER'S ORDEAL
BRITANNIC PASSES THROUGH ELECTRICAL STORM IN MID-OCEAN. The Wliite Star liner Britannic, from New York and Boston, recently arrived at Liverpool 'after paSsing through the most extraordinary electrical storm s seen on the North Atlantic for many years. When the liner was three hours out from Boston a violent thunderstorm burst. x Hailstones as large as walnuts swept the dack and rattled like machine-gun fire against the portholes, forcing the passengers to seek hurried shelter. Then the liightning came. The commander, Captain P. R. Vaughan, said: "We could hear lightning sizzling along the wireless aerial and down the back stairs leading from the upper deck. I have never seen such lightning in jny many years on the North Atlantic. I have not evehi heard of such a storm. "Then the gale passed a little distance away. About 8 o'clock the storm centre returned to the ship and
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 664, 17 October 1933, Page 2
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149LINER'S ORDEAL Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 664, 17 October 1933, Page 2
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