The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-04-20
Seven Months on a Desolate Rock

| Seven Months on Desolate Rock
/ An English newspaper gives the following
account Of the extraordinary shipwreck anG
rescue Of the crew Of an English ship
| Rarely, II ever, has the sea furnished A more
| remarkable tale regards human suffering and
! human endurance, than chat of the emigrant
| ship Strathmore. the full particulars of which
/ have been received by the foreign mails The
| vesscl-a line new clipper, in the Australa>an
/ trade-sailed from London for New Zealand on
| the 1.th OF April 1870 carrying general ear
90 and lightweight souls. Time passed and
| nothing was heard from her; no homeward-
| bounds reported her, no message OF her arrival
| came from The Antipodes, and the gloomy fore
| bOdngs Of some disaster We're deepenPd by the
! statement that among her cargo She had slowed
| not less than twenty tons OF gun-powder, a.
F, well as PETROLEUM, turpentine and other com
moGtieS we'll calculated to reproduce the
dreadful fate OF the Cospatrick.
As months rolled on and no scrap OF tidngs
! came 10 hand respecting the handsome ship,
| apprehension deepened into certainty. She
was given up at l.loyds for lost, entered in the
fatal catalogue of the craft mot Since heard off,
and tears were shed by tile friends of the ships
company and passengers rs for those never to
Inc seen or heard of more.
And il now appears the NtrathmOre had been
wrecked on the Crozet Islands, a solitary q Jtp
III the Southern Indian Ocear. The car tan
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the southwark Of these inlets but on tie night
of the last day of june the vessel suddenly ran
nt lhii speed upon 'dphiefged rocks and went
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~ ~ NJ :" escape, - were washed hito 'he
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/ ridge, of ten individuals, Eventually, how
I ever forty-nine person, managed to reach the
island - thirty nine Passengers, officer, and
crew having persisted.
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