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Battling with waves and lawyers : $b a genuine history of perils of the deep and an authentic record of the most important shipping case ever dealt with in the supreme courts of Australasia
Chapters
17 totalILLUSTRATIONS.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
CHAPTER II. SORRENTO AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.
CHAPTER III. THE DISCOVERY AND RESUSCITATION OF ROBERT PONTING.
CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTION OF THE ALERT.
CHAPTER V. THE VOYAGE.
CHAPTER VI. AMONG THE BILLOWS.
CHAPTER VII NIGHT.
CHAPTER VIII. MORNING.
CHAPTER IX. THE LANDING.
Description
An account of the shipwreck of the S.S. Alert by the only survivor, Robert Ponting; and an account of the case for damages brought by Mrs. Lucy Kilpatrick against Huddart, Parker and Co., the ship's owners.
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Language
en
Duration
~7 hours (407K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United Kingdom: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1895.
Credits
Bob Taylor, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2023-06-22
Rights
Public domain in the USA.