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A GRAPHIC!" DE3gaRHPTION.
FBIEIMLkNTLEI, May '7
The deaths of the captain and firstf mate left the barque in charge of the second mate, who was ignorant of. navigation..
The vessel was then beating about in the vain hope ■ of., finding land, (When found the vessel was in a daugerous position between two reefs, and had tho weather not "been calm she must have been wrecked. Four men in the lifeboat left the vessel at nine o'clock in the morning and reached, the fishing boat Fleetivin'cp at! four the same afternoon. They requested help to navigate the Vessel in safety.
Johanseu, the skipper of the Fleet(king, boarded the Victor and brought the vessel safely into port. Four of the crew are suffering from African fever, brought aboard hy inosquilos at Delagoa Bay. "
The. crew had* plenty of provisions throughout.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14518, 8 May 1913, Page 8
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