IN DISTRESS.
VESSEL ON HER BEAM ENDS.
By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. SYDNEY, 4th July. The American ship W. F. Babcock, a wooden vessel of 2130 tons gross, bound from Puget Sound to Table Bay, has^ put in to Sydney in distress. The vessel encountered a cyclonic storm and was thrown on her beam ends. She emerged from the gale in a disabled condition, leaking, and with her topsides lost. Her deck cargo, consisting of two hundred thousand feet of timber, went overboard during the gale. (The captain decided to come to Sydney for repairs.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 4, 5 July 1910, Page 5
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95IN DISTRESS. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 4, 5 July 1910, Page 5
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