San Francisco November 28, 1912 – Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenge to race in the 23 metre class at the Panama-Pacific International Expedition regatta in 1915, has been accepted by a syndicate headed by Thomas L. Miller president of the West Coast Life Insurance Company. The Challenge reads: “On behalf of a syndicate, yet to be …
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Old Barkentine Is Abandoned by Hpp Pppw Ilvl VlVHi – November 27,1905 Tampico Sights Her Adrift With Sails , Torn and Rudder Gone. Ten Men and a Dog Are Taken Off and Landed Safely in This City • by the Steamer Homer. Somewhere in the northern seas the old barkentine Quickstep, waterlogged, deserted and rudderless, …
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Dennis Wheeler – Geography Department, University of Sunderland – The storm attracted much attention at the time, not only for its severity but also for its effect on shipping around the southern coasts, where the loss of life was measured in thousands and of vessels in hundreds. Yet this, one of the most noted aspects …
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One of the greatest mysteries of its day….The True Story of the Mary Celeste by the Smithsonian Channel. (The Mary Celeste’s Log’s last entry November 25, 1872 at 5 a.m.)
The Peuvian ship Leonida was built by Dobie & Co, Glasgow in 1877. On 23rd November, 1911, Leonida with a cargo of guano was wrecked on the Islas de Chincha, Peru. The Leonida was previously the Forthbank, when owned by Andrew Weir (Bank Line), between 1894-1909. Iron Barque “Forthbank”, ex “Nebo” built in 1877 at …
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