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West Wind sails through typhoon and vanishing Canastota mystery
Captain Abbott recalls dramatic South Pacific voyage of the West Wind a 9000 ton freighter homeward from Brisbane after a brutal typhoon off Newcastle. The log notes benzine cargo danger and a feline mascot Sinbad the ship's cat who later rejoined at Sydney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States-Australia Line
West Wind
Charles A. Abbott
Brisbane
New York Harbor
Army Base Wharf
Fifty-ninth Street
Brooklyn
Keelson
South Pacific
Newcastle
Pacific
Panama
Pulpit Point
Sydney
Sinbad
Wellington
Rover
Seven Seas
New Zealand
New South Wales
Vacuum Oil Company
New Jersey
Australian
A. W. Lockie
New York
Montreal
Havre
Mersey
Auckland
Abbott
Simpson Street
The
Bronx
Stockton Bight
Sydney Harbor
Canastota
Sparles Versenkt
Dalgetty
Williams
United States
William Hodgson
Hodgson
Chronos
Adelaide
Melbourne
Ocean Island
Ajax
Armagh
Port Nicholson
Macumba
Lee
Captain Abbott
Navigation Department
Parkes
Pitcairn Island
Pitcairn
Bounty
Boston
Port of Call
Jane Street
Sinbad the Sailor
Scotty
Mac, Lee
Walsh
Lyons