New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-12
BIG LINERS AT MERCY
OF STORM ON OCEAN
Three Vessels Reach Port One
to Six Days Late-Report
Worst Sea in Years.
CHILD BURIED IN GALE
Several Passengers on Pretoria
in Hospital When Ship Docks
-Prinz Friedrich Will
helm Loses Anchor.

battered and tossed by succession OF
-,orms al sea, three giant liners came into
mort Yesterday from one to six days be-
hind schedule and showing evidence of
tho irving trip just enGed. What was not
annarent in the condition Of the ships
tbe,r passengers and officers attested TO
verbally.
Worst storm in several years" was the
verdict of the three captains and persons
who frequently traverse the ocean lanes.
The first steamer to dock was the Pre-
toris Of the Hamburg American Line.
ordinarily a twelve-day boat, the Pretoria
was forced TO run at such reduced speed
against head-on swells that eighteen days
we're required for the passage.
From noon on November 3 to noon the
following day the liner averaged only ten
knots. On Sunday the vessel experienced
a 75-mile an hour gale, accompanied by
intense cold. which coatei the vessel from
stem 10 stern with frozen spray.
Early in the afternoon the North Ger
man LLOYD Prilz Friedrich Wilhelm
locked at Hoboken with another tale Of
the seas which swept over the steamer
during the height of the gale Sunday that
an eight-tos anchor was torn from the
hawse pipe at the ships bow and lost in
the sea.
The Cameronia Of the Anchor Line. he
crack vessel of that company. arrived
Yesterday afternoon from Glasgow with
propeller blade missing, a result Of the
storm.
Captain Walter Baxter said the wealth
er between Thursday and Friday moons
was. with one exception. the toughest
ne had ever experienced. The siXty-one
cabin passengers and several hundred in
the second cabin and steerage were
forced TO keep well below decks for the
entire trip.
According TO the log of the Prinz Fried
rich Wilhelm the sky became overcast
on the second day out from Cherbourg.
and the sea roughened under high west
erly swell: on November T. the third day
Of the trip, the vessel made 400 miles;
weather moderate breeze 10 moderate
gale rough sea and high swell; Novem-
Der 3. 292 miles westerly gale, frequent
SQUALLS, high sea and swell, reduced
speed: November 6, overcast, moderate
west to southeast gale, high sea and
swell. reduced speed. distance 359 miles;
November Z. distance 273 miles, strong
westerly gale. very high sea and swell.
reduced speed November S, full gale until
midnight. reduced speed. distance 2el
miles. The last two DAYS journey was
fairly easy.
he 1f Gl0f IN al
a sale is worthy Of the term full as
was applied 10 that experienced Sunday.
il means that. 10 use a purely land term,
il was a "corker." What seems to the
ordinary seagoer to be the worst storm
in the history of ocean navigation is apt
TO he called a moderate breeze by
sailor.
Passengers on the Prinz Friedrich VIII
helm were ragged looking lot when
they stepped ashore yesterday, and all
vowed there was no word in the English
OF German language which could de-
scribe the trip.
on the evening OF November 3. Michael
Levinsky. three years old travelling in
the steerage OF the Pretoria with his
mother. died The vessel was stopped
in the heavy sea while the body was
lowered over the side. The day on which
the child died. according to Captain
Dugge was the worst he had ever
known The days run amounted TO only
Ito knots, an average Of about IA knots.
Five steerage passengers were in the
hospital when the vessel came into port,
suffering from minor injuries sustained
when the motion Of the ship threw
them about
The French liner Rochambeau' with
4Oo second cabin passengers. also SUI
fered from the succession of heavy head
winds and mountainous waves. Many OF
her deck fixtures were swept away or
broken and several passengers were stlli
IN when the vessel reached her pier.
On the Kaiser Wilhelm II of the North
German Lloyd line. which is expected to
dock this morning are several operate
singers. including Scott, Caruso. ,uro
Toscanini and Carl Jorn. Wireless mes
sages indicate that the steamer met win
the experience of the other ships, while
it is well known in shipping circles that
Mr.. Caruso is particularly susceptible 10
SeaSickness