AN EVENTFUL PASSAGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8356, 11 February 1907, Page 5

AN EVENTFUL PASSAGE.

EXPERIENCES OF THE ANNESLEY. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, February 8. The Annesiey, a large iron barque, put in at Lyttelton last night for provisions. The barque is on a somewhat protracted voyage from the Tyne, England, to San Francisco, with a cargo of pig-iron and bricks. Her last port was Monte Video, which she left ninety-seven days ago. She is commanded by Captain Ceriez. The Annesiey has had an eventful passage. She left the Tyne over nine months ago—on April 24th, 1906—bound for San Francisco, under command of Captain Culbert. Trouble began soon after her departure, for one of the seamen died while she was in the Channel. When off Cape Horn, on July 24th, exactly three months after leaving the Tyne, Captain Culbert died. After knocking about the Horn for some weeks, the vessel put into Monte Video on August 28th. She remained there for over two months, and then Captain Ceriez, who was sent out from England, took command. She sailed from Monte Video on the 2nd November last. Very heavy weather was encountered just after ■ leaving, and the barque behaved in such a manner that Captain Ceriez decided to make an eastern passage. She was thirty-two days from Monte Video to the meridian jfof the Cape of Good' Hope. The passage then'ce to | New Zealand was such that Captain Ceriez declares he never before experienced the like. It consisted mainly of a succession of calms, - broken by gales. A long calm would be followed by a gale blowing fiercely from twelve to twenty hours, then dying down, but leaving a heavy sea in which the heavily-laden vessel rolled terribly. On Sunday last she made the Snares. Her master, seeing that at the slow progress the barque was making it would be long before he reached San Francisco, determined to put into a New Zealand I port|to replenish his supplies. He experienced thick weather, and winds varying from north to south-east, off the coast, and was unable to make Poll Chalmers. Accordingly last night he put into Lyttelton. The barque has a charter to load at San Francisco for Adelaide. She is an iron barque of 1,591 tons net register, and is nearly thirty-one years old. She was formerly known as the British Enterprise, and is owned by Shaw, Savill, and Co.

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