The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
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By Harry Collingwood 27 Sep, 2019
It happened on our seventh night out from Cape Town, when we had accomplished about a third of the distance between that city and Melbourne. Excerpt.........The ship was the Saturn, of the well-known Planet Line of combined freight and passenger s ... Read more
It happened on our seventh night out from Cape Town, when we had accomplished about a third of the distance between that city and Melbourne. Excerpt.........The ship was the Saturn, of the well-known Planet Line of combined freight and passenger steamers trading between London, Cape Town, and Melbourne; and I—Eric Blackburn, aged a trifle over twenty-three years—was her fourth officer. The Saturn was a brand-new ship, this being her maiden voyage. She was a twin-screw, of 9800 tons register, 100 A1 at Lloyd’s, steaming 14 knots; and she had accommodation for 432 passengers, of whom 84 were first class, 128 second class, and 220 steerage; and every berth was occupied, the steerage crowd consisting mostly of miners attracted to Australia by the rumour of a newly discovered goldfield of fabulous richness. The crew of the ship numbered, all told, 103; therefore, when the catastrophe occurred, the Saturn was responsible for the lives of 535 people, of whom about 120 were women and children. Less
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Harry Collingwood (1851-1922) served in the navy and later as an engineer. He traveled extensively finding copious for his wonderful adventure stories,...
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