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AUSTRALIA'S NAVY AT SEA.DESTROYERS IN CYCLONE.In tin* curly .lay* of February ln-i the *eu-I uiuiuhip of I lie Australian Navy »h* put sternly io I lie test in ilu* Souili I’ncillr. Ami.I howling wind* ami mighty sen* ihnl Hki'pi over tlietu from stem to itli'ni, tin* three destroyera—Wurrejju, Yurru ami I’nr-rjml I n—weal hered • a I nil cyclone. * • (he moat violent weather that ha* ever come to my »N|»ori.*iUH‘. any* Commander Claude Cuiuberlcgv hi u rvjiort that ha* just bom made nvailable by the Minister tor Defence, Seuulor I'curee.The little vewarla were Hmollicred lime lifter time in fontiiiair water; rail* were bent ami laml* were swept away; yet. dc-r.nite tlieir small tonmnri* and nurruw beam, all three destroyers earn.- through the text v. i; It Hying colours, proving llnir seagoing «|iinlitien an.I the seamanship ol their crews. Cuiuuiunder Ciilwberlege, alter describing Iiow the denlroyen* found themselves running through very high sens ou Fchruury !». making for shelter in Maryborough Hiver, continue* a* follows:—“ICuin squall- non1 - •! in and obliterated tin1 visibility, un.l Inn mu arrived by dead reckoning clow to Kandy t’npe without catching u gliuipse of land, und nigh ting breakers close ahead, wliirli wen* probably at the end of Itivskscn Spit, yd I could not l*e certain, un.l s.. Im.l no alternative but to turn sen ward, make an oiling nml see the matter through. I. therefore, headed out N.K. to if el ii' fur out into the lelt-huml semi-circle of tile eyelone ms possible, time living H.:H) n.m. The centre was now rapidly approaching. nml the wind was blowing with hurricane low, areoin|uinied by territl.1 ‘'us and torrential rum, in which it was imp.-.silile I*. »oe for more tliuu n few yards.I therefore mnde the following \V/T signal to destroyers:—'In ease of ne|Miration, n-n-■lexvwiis Morel.*n Hay after lue storm.’ I wns now uleuming Hie revolution* for b knots, and although the ships were tossed uImmiI like cork* yet they were always under
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Grafton Clarence and Richmond Examiner
Grafton, New South Wales, AU
Tue, May 25, 1915
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