A Terrible Fall.
Two seamen on board Her Majesty's ship Agincourfc, one of the ships of the Channel Squadron, lost their lives under very painful circumstances. They were at 8 o'clock going through their customary evolutions aloft,and the men 'were about to cross the royal yards, when , without . the slightest Warning, the tore-top-gallant mast broke short off at the topmast, cap, and fell to port, carrying with it two seanien,' Timothy McCarthy, ordinary seaman, of Kenr mare, and William George Gimbiett, able seaman, a nativa of Plymouth, Deith m each case was instantaneous, the then having fallen a distance of nearly 150 feet. The accident is. quite inexplicable. " The- mast was a hew one fitted from Deyonpofr Dockyard while the Agin'court has been .in port j and,,as farascan be ascert»ined^it w,as^perfectly souod. ' .; '"**' '•'"'■ : - J •-'
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 114, 21 April 1883, Page 2
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133A Terrible Fall. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 114, 21 April 1883, Page 2
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