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THE SCREW STEAM-SHIP ROYAL STANDARD IN COLLISION WITH AN ICEBERG...HOME VOYAGE FROM MELBOURNE, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The screw steam-ship Royal Standard in collision with an iceberg on the home voyage from Melbourne, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Captain G. H. Dowell, commander of the screw steam-ship Royal Standard, one of the White Star line of Australian packets...The weather [in the South Pacific Ocean] was hazy...the vessel was sailing with a fresh breeze from the north-west, ten knots an hour; her steam-engines, therefore, were not at work, and her screw-propeller was raised, while she made use of the favourable wind. Suddenly she ran into a dense fog. The look-out man...saw a large iceberg...its precipitous cliffs, 600 ft. in height, were towering above the ship...Each wave now knocked her against it...the maintopmast and the mizzen-top-mast snapped asunder...The ship, having thus lost much of her sailing power, could not now keep her hull from coming into violent contact with the iceberg...By another crash, an upper plate amidships was split, with considerable damage...the destruction of the ship seemed quite inevitable...The Royal Standard had thus rubbed shoulders with the iceberg for about half an hour, scraping along half a mile of its length, when, happily, the end of it was seen through the surrounding fog, and at last the ship got clear'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. The screw steam-ship Royal Standard in collision with an iceberg...home voyage from Melbourne, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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COURSE OF THE DAMASCUS FROM SYDNEY TO CAPE HORN ON HER VOYAGE TO LONDON IN JULY AND AUGUST LAST, SHOWING THE GROUP OF ICEBERGS THROUGH WHICH SHE SAILED FOR NINE DAYS, 1861. 'THE DAMASCUS ENCOUNTERED ON HER HOMEWARD PASSAGE AN UNUSUAL QUANTITY OF ICE, EXTE
Course of the Damascus from Sydney to Cape Horn on her voyage to London in July and August..., 1861. Creator: Unknown. Course of the Damascus from Sydney to Cape Horn on her voyage to London in July and August last, showing the group of icebergs through which she sailed for nine days, 1861. 'The Damascus encountered on her homeward passage an unusual quantity of ice, extending over nearly 2200 miles...a circumstance which should be noticed for the information of navigators...The icebergs...were of an altitude, size, and appearance not to be accounted for but by the accumulation of many years, some reaching a height of 170ft., formed of several peaks and ridges of the most varied figures, all exhibiting the appearance of having been for long periods partially submerged. One in particular was so dark from seaweed and shellfish as to present the appearance of land, and it was, in fact, supposed to be an island; but whilst a sketch was being made of its shape it turned over, and the dazzling white of its upper part showed its nature... These [icebergs] are drifted about in the high southern lattitudes by wind and currents, and, in fact, may be met with in any season, as, according to the opinions of all on board the Damascus, they actually exist, unless drifted to a warm latitude [where they would melt], for many years'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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