page_title: 1889 Apia cyclone
section_title: Notes
hierarchical_section_title: 1889 Apia cyclone / Notes
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial tablet to Captain Henry Person (died 1936) in Winchester Cathedral.Location: North Transept.
context_page_description: The 1889 Apia cyclone was a tropical cyclone in the South Pacific Ocean, which swept across Apia, Samoa on March 15, 1889, during the Samoan crisis. The effect on shipping in the harbour was devastating, largely because of what has been described as 'an error of judgement that will forever remain a paradox in human psychology'.
context_section_description: Some unreferenced and early sources claim that the Olga was a Russian ship, and that the Nipsic was Japanese. This is not true, and is probably caused by those names sounding "ethnic" to an uninformed observer.
  Robert Louis Stevenson wrote an account of this disaster, differing from this article in A footnote to history.
caption: Memorial tablet to Henry Pearson (died 1936) in Winchester Cathedral, with a reference to HMS Calliope and the storm
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