A SAD MESSAGE FROM THE SEA
SENT BY THE CAPTAIN OF A SINKING VESSEL. [PEESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received December 30, 9.25 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. A bottle containing a message recording the loss of the brigantine Lady Albert has been picked up on the beach at Gerringong, 80 miles south of Sydney. The message bears the signature of Capt. Orr, and states that at the time of writing the vessel was in distress in lat. 54, long. 61 ; that there was a very heavy sea, all the boats had been stove in, and all hope abandoned ; also that there were 21 persons aboard. The concluding sentence pathetically said — " Whoever finds this may know that we have perished." [Assuming the longitude quoted to be east of Greenwich, the position indicated would be about half-way across the Southern Ocean, to tbe south of Kerguelen Island and the Crozets.J The importance of the above telegram is discounted by the fact that no vessel named the Lady Albert appears in Lloyd's Register. This suggests the possibility that the message in the bottle, like so many others of the kind, may be a silly hoax. __^__________ - ___
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1898, Page 5
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189A SAD MESSAGE FROM THE SEA Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1898, Page 5
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