SAMUEL BODDINGTON 1849from London 27 - 09 - 1848 via Plymouth 8/10/1848 with Captain M. Hurst,arrived Port Adelaide on 12-01-1849 One of the passengers wrote "that the 'Samuel Boddington', whilst having a pilot on board, heeled on her anchor below the bar. The watercasks were all started aft, and all the passengers ordered forward to lighten the vessel astern, and by those means she was got off. The captain said the event would have involved an expense of £1000." (this was reported in the October 10,1849 issue of the South Australian REGISTER) |
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