Was it the Sea-serpent
57 FEET OF FISH. The captain of the steamer Marathon states that when at the JCape Captain Robinson, of the Armadale Castle, reported that on the voyage from England the steamer struck a large fish which doubled across the nose of the steamer, and in violent efforts to free itself marked the paint on both sides showing a length of fifty-seven feet and a girth about the diameter of the ship’s lifeboat. The head was (blunt and barrel-shaped, the eye fairly large and protruding, the body a greeny brown with large dark spots on the back and sides under dull white. Owing to violent contortions the steamers crew were unable to verify whether the object was fish or mammal. It was a quarter of an hour before the steamer freed herself, then the fish sank tail first.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 7, 19 January 1905, Page 3
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141Was it the Sea-serpent Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 7, 19 January 1905, Page 3
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