STEAMER WAVERLEY DAMAGED.
A SEAMAN DROWNED. A trying time was experienced on the Waverley on Tuesday, while she was bound from Patea to Tnrakohe. She was caught in the storm, and\lost a lifeboat and fout lifebuoys, besides sustaining minor damage to her fittings, for repairs to. which she ;>ut into Nelson. In a mountainous sea in Cook Strait on Monday night a seaman was washed . from the "deck of his ship and drowned, his mates being powerless to rescue him. His name was E. Wright, and he lived in Auckland. Two steam vessels, each of only a little move than 100 odd tons, had been working together in Taxman Bay and m Monday night a hard wind and heavy rains were" the heralds of the cyjlone, through which both vessels passed without damage. These small boats later in the week left Tasman Bay fo their destination as the weather thickened. The ship on which Wright was 11 seaman 'net the full force of the cyclone, and it was when she was being pitched and tossed about that lie disappeared.—Dominion.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1918, Page 5
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179STEAMER WAVERLEY DAMAGED. Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1918, Page 5
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