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From: "Lynda Pearl" <>
Subject: [AUS-SAGEN] CITY OF ADELAIDE story part 2
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:40:53 +0930

...The starboard anchor was in its place, but, from the absence of the anchor on the other side and the broken tackle hanging from her bows, it is supported the vessel while riding at anchor broke her cable and was driven ashore by the violence of the gale. The first intimations of the disaster appears to have been noticed in Queenstown, where some residents saw rockets about 4o'clock a.m At daylight of course the stranded vessel was seen from the Semaphore, and her masts from all the surround locality. A number of person hastened to the beach, and later the day there were several hundreds, including the friends of the passengers. John THOMAS, a lumper, very pluckily swam off to the vessel, and have boarded her but that he was forbidden, being informed that there was fever on board. No further particulars were given, and so THOMAS, who had performed the feat with great bravery, returned to the shore.

Police constable ALLCHURCH thereupon dispatched a trooper to Port Adelaide for Dr. DUNCAN, the health officer. In the meantime there was no means of communication between the people on shore and those in the vessel, except when the latter send missives, as they did, by means of bottles, and in the latter part of the day these came pretty fast...

part 3 to follow.
Lynda.
please excuse the typing errors!!

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