STORMY VOYAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1938, Page 6

STORMY VOYAGE

SMALL DREDGE BOUND FOR NEW ZEALAND >■ FIVE MONTHS OUT FROM BRITAIN. ENFORCED CALL AT NEWCASTLE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Reca This Day, 10.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Having been driven out of her course by a cyclone encountered in the last stage of her adventurous voyage from the United Kingdom to New Zealand, the little grab hopper dredge Kerimoana put into Newcastle short of coal, water and stores. Her voyage already has taken five months. She encountered storms almost all the way. She was stopped once by a Spanish rebel armed trawler, twice had to put sick members of the crew ashore and several times was driven far out of her course. An attempt to make a direct voyage from Java to Townsville was frustrated when the coal supply ran short, and the vessel called at Thursday Island. The Kerimoana left Brisbane 11 days ago for Wellington and was well on her way when cyclonic storms battered her for several days and forced her to make for Newcastle,, where she arrived with supplies almost exhausted. ”