BERENGARIA'S ORDEAL

Shannon News, 5 February 1926, Page 2

BERENGARIA'S ORDEAL

THKOL'ftH AN ATLANTIC GALE. How the GGC passengers of tiie ;:t(.at Cunard liner Berensaria bad an experience during a voyage Home from New York which they will not 1 soon forget is reported in the "Morni;ug Post." . The liner "encountered ' what is described as the worst storm which has occurred for many years. ?'.mie twenty-five of the passengers received injuries, most of them minor, c wing to the violence of the storm ■ Home of the'passengers gave a graphic :;.;<.-oimt of the ship's battle with what what described as 'mountainous sea's' for two days and nights. One passenger, It F,. Johnson, had iHe arm ..broken, and received other r-Lines, through flung dj «., a :-,:,airwav o.v a vol) of ihe Shi,), the storm was at its height, on Saturday evening. "It was one of the worst gales 1 ever saw," he said, "but the ship was magnificently hai-JJed by the captain and staff. The waves were between 30ft and 40ft high at the worst." 'The ship's furniture and crockery also suffered damage, chairs and tables in fact everything loose was hurled from inside,to side of the room as the liner rolled, and every few minutes there was a report as a fresh stack of crockery broke loose and fell to the floor, where it was smashed to fragments. The total damage. I was informed by an official, was in the region of £2OOO.

A.story of a remarkable escape from injury, if not from death, by a fortuitous circumstance was told by Mr A. lii. Owen Jones, who was returning home from Chicago, ft occur-

red at the time when terriffic seas were crashing against the sides of the Berengaria. He had just moved his bed in his state room from under a big electric fan weighing about 100 lbs during the height of the storm, when the ship was rolling in an alarming fashion. Suddenly the fan crashed to the floor where the bed had previously stood. Mr Jones also saw the, thick glass in the porthole smashed to atoms by a wave, and said lie was knocked off his feet by the rolling trunk in his room.