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30 Oct 1837 Adrift in a Yawl Print E-mail
On Tuesday fortnight a young man named CHRISTIAN went from Peel in a frail
Norwegian yawl, and after buffeting about for two nights and days, at the mercy
of the wind and waves, was at last cast on shore off Port William, in Scotland,
in a state of great exhaustion from cold, hunger, and anxiety. From this place
he and his bark were conveyed to Whitehaven by the Thistle, of Port William, and
on Tuesday last he reached Peel, to the no small astonishment and satisfaction
of his anxious friends, who had little reason to expect anything else than that
he had met a watery grave. - Cumberland Packet.
 
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