Beset With a Hurricane.
MIRACULOUS^ESCAPE FROM ICEBERGS. (Per Press Association^) Melbourne, This Day. The barque B. Webster was beset with a hurricane for almost eighteen days and had a miraculous escape from collision with icebergs. One morning it was found that she had been all night in company with formidable ice blocks. The wheel was smashed by a sea and the cabin stove in. The crew managed to keep down the leak after a portion of the cargo had been jettisoned.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 305, 29 June 1895, Page 2
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