THE ALEXA IN A CYCLONE.
[PKE UNIT ID PHKSS ASSOCIATION.! ! "Wklu.vctox. This ]).-ty. , Turnbull's barque Ali'xn, from Foo Cliow had a narr- \v esr:\pe fiom a terrible | cyvh>ne on the lyth .August. I came on i to blow a porfert liurricnnc from the j N.!N W.. tin. 1 sliip beiim then «>n a l^e sliore. I'ain fell in torrents, :m.l ft rove nlonj: with blinding force, the lightning also being terrific. The Alexa scudded ' before tlie gale and the samo night the tempest suddenly burst on her, throwing the vessel on her beam and?. At daylight she presented a most, tli.-mnl spectacle with tattered sails, ropes broken, and twisted round the rigging, and every thing in disorder. The sea was terrible, but the Alexa behaved beautifully.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 40, 4 November 1882, Page 3
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126THE ALEXA IN A CYCLONE. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 40, 4 November 1882, Page 3
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