Voyage of the Ship Alberfoyle.
(Per Press Association.) Melbourne, This Day. The evidence at the enquiry as to the voyage of the Alberfoyle shows that the Captain tried, without success, to secure a second mate ; he consumed forty five bottles of rum in twenty-four days. The vessel narrowly escaped going ashore at Shortlands. The boatswain considered if the Captain had done his duty in shortening sail during the hurricane the mate wonld not have lost his life. The carpenter corroborated this, and added the Captain said if he did not sign the log he (the Captain) would get into a lot of trouble at Melbourne. He said he would sail the ship to heaven or to hell, and also threatened to blow witness' brains out.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 299, 22 June 1895, Page 2
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125Voyage of the Ship Alberfoyle. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 299, 22 June 1895, Page 2
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