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BARQUE ENDANGERED. IN SYDNEY HARBOURBY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, April 2.‘ The four-masted barque, J. and T. Dollar, the largest sailing vessel which has ever entered Sydney, carrying a cargo of 2,00u,UU0 feet of lumber from America, had a narrow escape from being wrecked off the Heads.
The tow-rope snapped in a heavy sea, and the big ship was driven within a cable length of the rocks before tlie tug secured a new hold. Only the skilful handling of the' ship by the barque's captain and the plucky work of the tug master averted .disaster.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18077, 3 April 1923, Page 6
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96ALMOST! Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18077, 3 April 1923, Page 6
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