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| Description | |
Contrary winds |
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| Event Types and Categories: |
Strong wind (Weather) |
| Voyage: | 110703 (click here to view all of the events on the voyage) |
| Date (From source): | >21-04-1851 |
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| Date (Normalised): | >21-04-1851 |
| Event Location: | At sea |
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| Reliability (of these coordinates): | (Click here for an explanation of event reliability) |
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| Vessel(s): |
Marinion (Brig),
Master Robert Horn |
| Voyage description: | Cargo of Coffee and dried hides from Rio de Janeiro bound to Gibraltar and Malta. Yellow fever attack. |
| Transcription: | Proceeding on their course on the twenty-first had strong, contrary breezes with a [?] sea, causing the vessel to pitch heavily. attended to the pumps regularly every two hours from this date to the third of May following, had moderate weather but foul winds at times prevailed |