THE LOST EURYDICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 24

THE LOST EURYDICE.

I read in the "Star" recently the account of the capsizing of H.M.s. Jfiurydice on March 24, 1398,I'renieinber that Sunday quite well. We were getting real wintry weather in the Channel- at that time. The Shaw, Savill barque Helen Denny was in company with the Eurydice all the way up Channel, with dirty weather and frequent heavy squalls, but as far as I remember she did not see the going of her. It was off Dunnosc Head, Isle of Wight, that the fatal squall struck her. The Helen Denny's people claimed it was a w,onder she had not capsized before, owing to the reckless way she was carrying on. That occurred not far from my home; I was born and brought up on the Solent. The picture Mr. Eddy has of her could not have represented her that Sunday afternoon. I was standing by the barque Girvan, of Ayr, lying in the E.I. Docks, London, loading for Brisbane. We left London the following Sunday with the same sort of weather. Our decks were smothered in ice, but with a fair wind we were not many days before we were in fine, warm weather. J. HISCOCK.