TWENTY-TWO LIVES ARE REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN LOST IN THE STORM WHICH RAGED WITH UNPARALLELED FURY ALONG THE NORTHWEST COAST GRIM DEATH RULES OVER WRECKAGE Numerous Disasters the Result of the Violent Gale. Many Japanese Supposed to Have Perished in the Flood. Indian Village Is Swept Out Into . the Shipwrecking Sea and Another Vessel …
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MANY CRAFT CAUGHT BY GREAT STORM Grave Fears for Fate of Nine Vessels Storm’s Terrible Havoc Along the Northern Coast Bark Henrietta Sinks While Lying at Anchor Near Astoria, and the Four Masted Schooner Minnie A. Caine is a Wreck at the Head of the Strait of Juan de Flora — Other Damages SEATTLE, Wash., …
December 27, 1998 – The 1998 Sydney to Hobart fleet comprised 115 starters. Of these, only 44 yachts completed the race, after severe weather conditions struck the fleet off the south-eastern Australian coast. An unusually strong low pressure depression developed which resulted in mid-summer snow across parts of south-east Australia. The weather system built into …
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December 26, 1945 – The 1945 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the inaugural running of the annual “blue water classic”, the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. It was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales. The race was initially planned to be a cruise planned by Peter …
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Cap-Haïtien, Haiti – December 25, 1492 – On the return trip, on 24 December (1492), not having slept for two days, Columbus decided at 11:00 p.m. to lie down to sleep. The night being calm, the steersman also decided to sleep, leaving only a cabin boy to steer the ship, a practice which the admiral …
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