# Battling with waves and lawyers

Author: Reid, John Arbuckle [Compiler]

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71021

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Battling+with+waves+and+lawyers+Reid&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 been only two such shipwrecks in Australian waters. One was the wreck of the emigrant ship _Dunbar_ near Sydney Heads, Port Jackson, on the 20th August, 1857, when a seaman named Johnson—who is still living and permanently employed by the New South Wales Government, as a lighthouse-keeper at Newcastle—was the sole survivor out of 121 persons.

## Chapters

- [book I take the opportunity of publicly conveying some token of my](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/battling-with-waves-and-lawyers-71021/chapters/11/index.md)