SIX SAILORS SWEPT AWAY.
Arrived— Earl Derby, Captain Kerr, 103 days from London. On June 20, at 8 a.m., while in latitude 42 S., longitude 61 E., John M'Night, an ordinary seaman, J. Brown, G. Bahar, J. Davis, W. Mills, A.B's, and H. N. Fiske, apprentice, were washed overboard and drowned. At the time a heavy gale was blowing, and the men were engaged hauling the main braces, when the sea came and washed them away. Nothing could be done to save them.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5252, 25 July 1885, Page 2
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83SIX SAILORS SWEPT AWAY. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5252, 25 July 1885, Page 2
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