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| Description | |
Top mast stay sail split. |
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| Event Types and Categories: |
Strong wind (Weather) |
| Voyage: | 110543 (click here to view all of the events on the voyage) |
| Date (From source): | 02-09-1859 |
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| Date (Normalised): | 02-09-1859 |
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| Vessel(s): |
Demerara (Brig),
Master William Groves |
| Voyage description: | Cargo of Barley from Alexandria to a port in the United Kingdom calling at Cork or Falmouth for orders. Encountered tempestuous weather. |
| Transcription: | On the second, it blew a hard gale from the N : N : W : and at 4 p:m: the fore top top mast stay sail got split. |