A FAMOUS SHIP.—The old barque-rigged corvette Calliope, which fought her way out of Samoa harbour on March 16, 1889—40 years ago to-morrow —in the teeth of one of the worst hurricanes known in the Pacific. She is still afloat, having been renamed Helicon, and is serving as an R.N.V.R. training ship on the Tyne.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 613, 15 March 1929, Page 16
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54A FAMOUS SHIP.—The old barque-rigged corvette Calliope, which fought her way out of Samoa harbour on March 16, 1889—40 years ago to-morrow —in the teeth of one of the worst hurricanes known in the Pacific. She is still afloat, having been renamed Helicon, and is serving as an R.N.V.R. training ship on the Tyne. Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 613, 15 March 1929, Page 16
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