SHIP AND A WHALE.
Not for tho first time lias a steamship run into a whale. The steamer Yarmouth from Boston to Nova Scotia has had this experience It. was an experience which, like that predicted bv George Stephenson for tlio cow that obstructed the locomotive, proved very bad for the whale. Tho ship's bow cut deep into the whale, and the engines had to be reversed before it could bo freed. Tho whale, a 50ft. leviathan, must have been asleep when the steamer all but out the poor thing in two.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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92SHIP AND A WHALE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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