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Battling with the waves the wreck of the SS ALERT. Narrative of Robert Ponting the sole survivor.
Battling with the waves the wreck of the SS ALERT. Narrative of Robert Ponting the sole survivor.

Battling with the waves the wreck of the SS ALERT. Narrative of Robert Ponting the sole survivor.

Maker
Date1894
Object number00008117
NameBook
MediumPaper, cloth covered boards.
DimensionsOverall: 10 x 179 x 124 mm, 0.15 kg
ClassificationsBooks and journals
Credit LineANMM Collection
HistorySS ALERT, Huddart Parker Line, sank in a storm off the Victorian coast in 1893, of the sixteen crew only one survivor, the cook Robert Ponting.
Wreck of the LONDON
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