TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES AT SEA.
The four-masted ship Lord Wolfeley, wbich loaded at Newcastle for Caleta near Iquiqui* had a terrible experience on the voyage to Liverpool from the West Coast. The captain, writing to a friend iD Sydney, said: —" One seaman died, and after the vefael had rounded Cape Horn we met with nothing but a succession of head winds' .and after clearing the tropics encountered a fearfully heavy gale. Provisions ran short, cur stores getting damaged by sea water, and the ciew, numbering 32, had a most trying time. Five weeks before reaching Home a steamer was sighted, and an attempt was made to launch a boat, but in the sea running the gear was smashed, the mate's arm fractured, and tbo boat swept away. Three weeks later nothing in the shape of provisions was lert but three-quarters of a pouna of flour for each man' and on this we subsisted for nine days- In a very emaciated condition wo reached Plymouth Sound after a passage of 141 days.,,
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 152, 30 October 1895, Page 4
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170TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES AT SEA. Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 152, 30 October 1895, Page 4
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