TRAGIC TALE OF THE SEA.
HOW liIUTIS!' SAII.OUS SI'NT T11EII! LAST MKSSA-CK. Ilerlin. iV?eiul,cr fi. A tragic tale of the .a. involving the loss of a lint "Mi !,e! a in thr Bristol Channel, come, io .. roundabout way liom Spiokeroog e( f the ]■','..■<: I'li-inn is amis. o(V t|,., r.o th western coast of Ocrinnnv. A l.oitl- washed a:-leav there and picked up on the -and, at low tide, contained tie following message. scribleed roughly in p ■ncij mi a scrap of paper apparen.Uv torn out of a ship's log hook: "Tiie ''ketch William and .Mary of Bridgewaier is --inking sixteen miles south West of llarlland. Cod he'p us! (Signeil,l .lames Cnuip'sinis fmast'-r). William Fry Hirst mate) Samuel Williams (second mate). John IHley (boy) all of llridgewater, October IS, ]!)o(i.'' This bottle was thrown overboard at the mouth of the Jlristol Channel, carried round Laud's End, up the Knglish Channel, and across the Xortn Sea until it landed at Spiekcroog, six weeks aflcr the time it was dropped in the water, over'a thousand miles distant.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 22 January 1907, Page 4
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174TRAGIC TALE OF THE SEA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 22 January 1907, Page 4
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