A FATAL VOYAGE.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION) WELLINGTON, April SO. The Rebecca Crowell, Captain Ciowell, from New York, has arrived after a passage of 120 days. On,the 6th of April, during a heavy gale, a tremendous sea broke on board, and about 20 minutes after, when one of the hands, Enoch Thirbon, was required, he was found to be missing, and must have been washed overboard and drowned. One of tile other hands also hid a narrow escape, having been actually in the water, but he managed to scramble into the vessel again. Enoch Thirbon was a coloured man, about 25 years of age.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1029, 2 May 1883, Page 2
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103A FATAL VOYAGE. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1029, 2 May 1883, Page 2
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