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West Wind Heroic Narrow Escape From Typhoon
The West Wind under Captain Abbott fought a raging cyclone off Newcastle with five hundred tons of bunkered coal on deck. After a night of slamming seas, dragging anchors, and near wreck, the crew kept her afloat by pumping and careful steering. Sinbad the cat, last seen aboard the Canastota, later joined the voyage at Sydney and became a symbol of luck for the crew.
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Charlies A. Abbott
Brisbane
New York Harbor
Army Base Wharf
Fifty-ninth Street
Brooklyn
Keelson
South Pacific
Newcastle
Brisbane Harbor
Pacific
Panama
Pulpit Point
Sydney
Sinbad
Canastota
Wellington
Rover
Seven Seas
New Zealand
New South Wales
Vacuum Oil Company
New Jersey
Australian
A. W. Lockie
New York
Montreal
Havre
Mersey
West Wind
Auckland
Abbott
Simpson Street
The
Bronx
Stockton Bight
Sydney Harbor
Dalgetty’s
Williams
Cannastota
United States
Cyclops
William Hodgson
Orkney
Hodgson
Kalapol
Chronos
Adelaide
Melbourne
Ocean Island
Leward
Ajax
Armagh
Port Nicholson
Macumba
Lee
Captain Abbott
Dalgetty
Navigation Department
Parkes
Ned
Pitcairn Island
Bounty
Boston
Port of Call
Jane Street
Council of Sea
Sinbad the Sailor
Scotty
Mac
Walsh
Lyons