DISASTER AVERTED.
SYDNEY, April 2. ! The four-masted barque J. and T. Dollar, the largest sailing vessel which has ever entered Sydney, carrying a cargo of 2,660,000/ feet of lumber from America, had a narrow escape of being wrecked off the Heads. j The tow rope snapped in a heavy sea, and the big ship was driven within a cable length of the rocks before the. tug secured a new hold. i Only skilful handling of the ship by the barque's captain and the pluck and work of the tug master averted a dis-' aster. • |
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 April 1923, Page 5
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94DISASTER AVERTED. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 April 1923, Page 5
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