The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-03-28
PASSED NEARLY THIRTY ICEBERGS.
rempestuous Voyage Of the Furness
Line Steamer ulanda.
The PoIynesIan Now Five pays over.
due at halifax.
a March Storm Accompanies by
Thunder, Lightning and. AaII.
Especial to the Press. j

HALIFAX, March 27.-The Furness lima
steamer Ulanda, arrived this morning from
London after an IS days passage. meeting a
series Of gales with tremendous seas and as
one of the officers expressed it: "We had
1t In the teeth all the way across" She left
London, March o, with moderate winds
which at noon the following day had In
creased to strong gale with heavy head
seas and thick rain which moderated at mid
night. There was strong westerly swell
the next day, and on the 18th. they had a
moderate breeze with head seas in which
the ship plunged violently and shipped lots
Of water. Westerly breezes continued the
next day. the seas washing the decks and at
midnight they had squalls of heavy rain
The wind increased to heavy gale on the
morning Of the 18th and the ship was struck
by sea which burst in the headlights In the
forecastle, carried away the gangway rails
and strained the front Of the saloon. The
wind kept shifting from southwest to north
west and back again, blowing with consider
able force and causing terribly confused
seas. The gale slightly moderated ON the
10th, but the seas were like mountains, the
vessel shipping water fore and aft and break
ing adrift and smashing number Of barrels
Of tar which were on deck. The gales con-
tinued until March q, at times moderatlng,
but the wini would suddenly shift and the
weather would become as bad as before. The
ship at times pitched violently, driving her
bows under water. The gale on the 18th
was accompanied by heavy lightning, with
heavy squalls Of rain. At daylight on the
22d, In latitude 450, 55 /; longitude 49, 49,
she sighted an iceberg and for two days
passed between 20 and 80 icebergs, some Of
them very large, one being about 1000 feet
long. There was no field Ice, but there was
a heavy fog and this, with numerous Ice
bergs, made the vessel proceed slowly. An
other gale was experienced o n the oath and
25th and the weather became very cold, the
vessel being badly iced up forward
The Harlaw arrived this afternoon from
st. Pierre Capt. Farquhar reports that he
passed through 60 miles Of slab ice.
The Polynesian. with malls, has not yet
arrived. She is now five days overdue. The
impression Is that she Is detained by Ice.
The captains Of several vessels arriving
last week report the gale on We'd
nesday, March 10Th, to be the worst they ev-
or experienced. Another vessel arrived
this morning bearing the effects Of that
storm. She Is the barque Ethel. Capt. HOdg-
kins from Boston. with a load Of lumber for
Rosario She left Boston, March II, and had
moderate winds, but with heavy cross seas
until Wednesday. when the wind suddenly
shifted from south southeast TO west, and IN
a fash the fore and main topmast strysails,
and the fore and main lower topsails were
carried away and the foresail split. The
rudder head was also twisted. TAe storm
was accompanied by rain, thunder, lightning
and hail, the latter being very cutting. The
storm lasted only few hours. Capt. Hodg-
kins says he never saw storm come on so
quickly or so violent while It lasted. He
decided to make for this port for repairs, but
arriving on the banks encountered a norther
and was blown of 60 miles. He reports
heavy sea outside this morning.