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Identifier: tragedyofseasors01ellm (find matches)
Title: The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Ellms, Charles
Subjects: Shipwrecks
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. A. Leary: Boston, W. J. Reynolds & co.
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THE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF A LASCAR, WHO WAS WASHED OVERBOARD DURING A GALE IN THE BAY OF BENGAL, AND After swimming thirteen Hours, without any Support,was picked up by a passing Ship; June, 1823,
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ERHAPS the hand of Heaven was nevermore conspicuous than in the followingnarration. In 1823, the ship Valletta,Captain Fraser, on her passage fromCalcutta to Penang, where she arrivedin distress, on the morning of the 4thof June, picked up a man at sea, whohad been struggling with the waves for upwards of thirteenhours, without any support. About 6, A. M., it then being Mr. Dickenss watch, thesecond officer of the ship — at that time a very heavy searunning, the ship under double-reefed topsails and foresail,mizzen-topsail handed, the topgallant-yards upon deck, andthe vessel laboring heavily—thought he heard the cries of aman at some short distance from the ship; on looking tothe spot, plainly perceived something floating in the water,which, by the assistance of a good glass, he found was a manswimming towards the ship, who occasionally held up hishand as a signal of distress; gave the alarm instantly, onwhich we wore ship and stood towards him, lowered the A LASCAR SAILOR RESCUE

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