New-York tribune., 1922-10-01
Cunarder Moves Jauntily
Up Bay From Gallant
Victory Over Worst Blow
of Shippers AZ Years
Great Seas Flood
Many Staterooms
Grateful Passengers Give
$3.50 to Grew, on Duty
80 Hours at a Stretch

/ There can be little doubt of the fury
of the storm that the Aquitania passed
through last Sunday, day out from
Cherbourg, when Captain Sir James T.
W. Charles, skipper of the Cunarder
and commodore of the feet, declared
it to be, upon his arrival here yester-
| day, the worst he ever encountered in
his forty-two years experience as a
vessel ploughed her way through the
ountainous seas against heavy
northwest gale with her engines throt-
tied to a speed of about four knots,
| just enough to keep her under control
while tons Of water were pounding her
sides.
| Though she was pretty we'll battered,
the big Cunarder may be said to have
come smiling through the ordeal She
steamed up the bay so jauntily that
even those who had heard in advance
of her fight found nothing awry in her
/ superstructure nor any outward evil
! she had been through bad time.
Storm Unusual for This Season
Captain Charles said he believed the
| storm was the same cyclonic hurri-
cane, unusual for this time of year,
that wrought damage in Bermuda and
| then swept in d northeasterly direction
across the Atlantic.
at was shortly after the church
services last Sunday the captain said,
chat there were indications of an
approaching storm. AT s p. M. strong
southeast gale was blowing which
! gradually increased in velocity until
midnight when the wind veered to the
west, still increasing in force. The
barometer registered 1928, the lowest
point l have seen it register since
| March, 1898, when it touched 2782
as | was crossing the North Atlantic
OH the Lucania,
The gale continued with hurricane
| force until 8 O'Clock Monday morning
1 when it abatcd somewhat, but the
I rough seas were encountered until
II II lFsstIT.fsafsday. During che height ofsthe
4 storm several of the windports on r
| deck on the port and starboard sides
l4were4 smashed and door to- one of
the .passageways on the Same deck wa $
lsmashed, repaired and broken down a
| second time. The water that did the
was blown with terrific force by the
wind from the crests of the seas. B
I deck is about fifty-ve feet from the
water line. " '''-'''''f
Two Washed From Freighter
During the early hours of Monday
we received radio from the Cardiff
! Hall stating that she had lost several
OF her hatch covers and that the sec
ond mate and u seaman were washed
overheard in trying to repair the dam
age, Japanese freighter also sent
| out an SOS asking for assistance after
| her rudder had been smashed
| Every passenger on the vessel was
anxious to praise the officers and crew
for their seamanship, particularly the
stewards, who were assiduously en-
gagged bailing out and mopping up
some of the% staterooms on the hurri-
| cane deck and in addition fpacifying
a few of the passengers who were on
the verge of hysteria. After nine of
the ports on the starboard side of the
| ship were smashed early Monday morn
! ing many of the passengers in their
night attire went to the lounge 20
spend the remainder of the night.
About thirty-fve of the passengers
tried to sleep in the lounge. Few sue
ceeded in getting any rest, but they
were constantly being reassured by the
| stewards, who worked necessarily for
| thirty-six hours at their various tasks
| Charles K. Peters, of Tulsa, Okla, a
millionaire oil man. who had to fee
with his son from their Raeburn suite
on the hurricane deck when the water
poured through the ports and showered
them with glass, described the ocean
as Rocky Mountain sea with hundreds
of Pixies Peaks When he left his
room, he said, he waded through water
| ankle deep and could not return to
his suite until day later.
The same water that broke into the
+, stateroom of Mr.. Peters smashed two
of the thick windows protecting the
hurricane deck and carried with it a
strip of about thirty feet of coping
over these same windows, as we'll as q
large panel protecting the expansion
plates of the vessel on that deck.
| Passengers Reward Seamen
The passengers took up purse of
| $3.50 for the seamen on the Aquitania
| as a recognition of services rendered
| during the storm.
! The Aauitania completed the trip
| from Cherbourg to New York in six
DAYS thirteen hours and eight minutes,
| at an average speed Of 1855 knots, or
| about four knots less than she ordinar-
! ily averages on the run. There were
! 735 cabin passengers on the liner, 627
second and 400 third class, in addition
| to a crew of 854. She also carried
| $5,000,000 in gold consigned to Ameri-
| can banks.
| The Cunarder Laconia, which sailed
fcnptlnuad nm mana fhrae,