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Rʹecit du naufrage du "Meridian" sur l'isle d'Amsterdam / par M. Alfred Lutwyche
Bib ID 3108760
Format BookBook
Author
Lutwyche, Alfred, 1810-1880
 
Uniform Title Narrative of the wreck of the Meridian. French
Description Port Louis [Mauritius] : D. Channell, [1853?] 
15 p. ; 23 cm. 
Summary

Lutwyche sailed to Australia in June 1853 on board the Meridian which was wrecked off Amsterdam Island on 24 August. Three of 108 passengers lost their lives. The survivors were rescued by Captain Isaac Ludlow of the American whaler Monmouth and taken to Mauritius where the government found them passages to Sydney. During his stay in Mauritius he wrote this account of the disaster in French. Unknown to Ferguson.

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Not recorded in Toussaint.

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Subjects Meridian (Ship)  |  Shipwrecks - Madagascar - Amsterdam Island.

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