GALES AT HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 190, 31 December 1912, Page 5

GALES AT HOME.

THE NARIIUNG'S EXPERIENCE. SWEPT FROM STEM TO STERN. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, December 29. Further details regarding the Narrung' show that two monster waves rose up suddenly. The Narrung rode out the first, then ploughed into the trough. Instead of rising to the second wave, the vessel went down to it, and the wave swept clean over the whole vessel. All the damage was done at one blow. The saloon and deck cabin doors were torn off, the foremast broken in three places, and winches torn adrift and tossed about liko corks. There was four feet of water in the starboard bilge and engineroom, causing a list of ten degrees. Wireless touch was maintained with several steamers until the Narrung was lightened and able to dispense with assistance. Eight lifeboats were made ready, although they could not have lived in such a sea.

■A woman was' caught in a sea and washed to and fro on the deck, despite her frantic struggles, until she was nearly drowned. Almost all her clothing was torn off her. Others were washed about like corks. A PASSENGER'S STORY. SUFFERINGS OF WOMEN. London, December 29.

I). Marion, a passenger proceeding by the Narrung to Adelaide, says:— "The women were imprisoned in the flooded cabins, and could not be released. When the ship turned she was rail down many times to the water's edge, and the waters poured down the ventilators. Messrs. Sullivan and Marks, travelling to Adelaide, were injured, sustaining bruises. The partitions of the cabins were smashed; some of the occupants were up to the waist in water.'"'

OTHER VESSELS DAMAGED. London, December 2!). Many vessels are returning to port crippled., with sailors injured. The Beacon Grange lias reached the Solent. The sea swept her, near the Caskets, and all the starboard lifeboats were smashed, the davits snapped, and several cabins wrecked.

A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. Received December 30, 11.15 p.m. London, December 30. A wave eighty feet high damaged' the whole of the upper structure of the Beacon Grange. The engineers and firemen worked waist deep in water.