GALE AND WRECKS IN SYDNEY HARBOR.
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Received this day at 1.18 a.m. - Sydney, July 1
Shell harbor reports that the tug Warwick, is ashore at Long Point. One man got ashore, but it was impossible to reach the others, there being a big sea running. Sydney, This Day.* Protector’s crew are —J. L -uvis (capt), B. Walton (engineer), Phillips and Tobranson (deck hands), and Vickery (fireman). The tug ashore at Long Point is the Alexander Berry. The Manly is floated, There is slight damage. The Alexander Berry is insured for £SOO in the South British. Four of the crew wore drowned. One was saved. The Protector had a passenger (name unknown) drowned. All the crew were married. The affair was caused by a sudden huge sea, which struck her broadside and turned her completely over for a while, bottom up, and then she disappeared. There is a tremendous sea on the coast blocking shipping. lleceived this day at 8 53 a m. Sydney, This Day. The hull of the Protector was battered and torn when she was thrown ashore on beach.
The steering gear of the “Alexander Berry’’ failed and she was hurled on a terrible reef of rooks, and went to pieces in view of the onlookers. Fireman Pearce with the aid of a lifebelt got ashore after a rough experience. Those drowned on the Alexander Berry include Captain Marshall; engineer Bartlett and seamen Pratt and Jen»on.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1901, Page 3
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245GALE AND WRECKS IN SYDNEY HARBOR. Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1901, Page 3
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