Category: History - Other
A shipwreck, at all times and under any circumstances, is a lamentable occurrence, but it is peculiarly so in instances where out of a whole ship’s company only one solitary individual is left to tell the tale. So far as is known to the compiler of the present work there have...
A shipwreck, at all times and under any circumstances, is a lamentable occurrence, but it is peculiarly so in instances where out of a whole ship’s company only one solitary ind...
2. CHAPTER II.In order to give those of our readers who have not visited Sorrento a clearer idea of the coast whereon the _S.S. Alert_ was wrecked, it has been deemed necessary to give, by wa...
3. CHAPTER III.On Thursday, the 28th December, 1893, a large number of visitors were, as is usual at holiday times, down at Sorrento. All day a heavy gale of wind and rain had been blowing alo...
4. CHAPTER IV.Owners, Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co., Melbourne. She was an iron screw Steamer of 243 tons gross measurement, built at Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1877. Her length was 169 feet...
5. CHAPTER V.The hapless vessel can no longer steer. Free from the floods that burst in dread career O’er her trembling hull, she dips in each sea, And then she sinks! fill’d solely from the...
6. CHAPTER VI.Owing to the manner in which the ship went down she created little or no suction. A slight swirl and wreckage—principally pieces of the awning, a few gratings and life-buoys—wer...
7. CHAPTER VIIDarkness began to set in, and I soon lost sight of everybody and everything except the light on Cape Schanck. With the daylight fled my hope of a life-boat coming to our assista...
8. CHAPTER VIII.At length—and what a length—the day began to dawn, and with it came renewed hope that I might be rescued. As the welcome light crept slowly in I kept straining my eyes, when I g...
9. CHAPTER IX.Just as I had given myself up for lost, providentially I was washed sideways against a jutting rock, and this enabled me to stem the recoiling water until it passed away. Althou...
10. CHAPTER X.There is not an effect without a cause, Swimming is an outcome of nature’s laws. It is easy to learn to swim, and hence, The main requisition is confidence, Men cannot do it—at...
11. CHAPTER XI.“The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen The monarch may forget the crown That on his head an hour has been; The mother may forget her child That s...
12. book I take the opportunity of publicly conveying some token of myheartfelt gratitude to the Misses Armstrong, Davies, Duggin, Hill, Moorman, and the nurses, Miss Skelton and Mrs. Keating, to Mrs. J. D. Ramsay and Mrs. Whitelaw, to Drs. Browni...