GRANDFATHER’S YARNS.
(to the editor.) Sir, —In the Southern Cross o£ June 2nd, “ Grandfather ” yarns about the Bombay rock and a ship named the Bombay, which, he says, was lying in the New River in 1837. When I first visited the New River in 1860, I was told that the Bombay rock was named after a big ship of 1000 tons burden, which had been in the New River and had been moored to the rock about 20 years previously. However, Grandfather’s yarn seems to fit better with a smaller ship of the same name, in which I made a long voyage many years ago, and which, if still aflaot would now be nearly a hundred years old. Perhaps when Grandfather gives us another yarn he will be kind enough to let us know what was the tonnage, build, and rig of his “Bombay,” of what timber she was built, by. whom owned, and the age of the captain whose name he mentions.—Yours, etc., Old Man.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 11, 16 June 1894, Page 12
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166GRANDFATHER’S YARNS. Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 11, 16 June 1894, Page 12
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