REMARKABLE CAUSES OF WRECKS.
Tho destruction of tho steamer Berlin was ono of tlioso frightful calamities against which neither soamansliip nor skilful engineering can avail. Tho violonco and . tho unexpectedness of it woro such as no novolist would daro to suggest for any doomod ship of his fancy. In matters' of this sort roality far transcends imagination. A coujilo of months ago a Iveiss boat drew in such a wealth of herrings off Caithness that she immediately sank and drowned lior crew.
The bottle,«• metaphorically, has sent many a good mail under; tho bottlo of actuality, in number sufficient to make up a 16-toiu (cargo, all but sent the good ship Camel and her crew to Davy Jones. Many of tho vessels were stored on deck, and during a terrific storm shifted, and smashed as they rolled about. Fragments of tho glass got into the stooring gear, and mado the holm useless, while wliolo bottles filling caused so serious a list ns to nearly sink the ship. Afore remarkable still was tho experience of the liner African Prince ffist October, when a gigantic meteor descended, like a mass of molten metal ,almost on her.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 20 May 1907, Page 3
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194REMARKABLE CAUSES OF WRECKS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 20 May 1907, Page 3
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