- Bib ID:
- 3108760
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lutwyche, Alfred, 1810-1880
- Uniform Title:
- Narrative of the wreck of the Meridian. French
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. SR 910.452 L974 copy
- Description:
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- Port Louis [Mauritius] : D. Channell, [1853?]
- 15 p. ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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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.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- Not recorded in Toussaint.
- National Library of Australia's SR 910.452 L974 copy is wanting cover.
- SR 910.452 L974 copy also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-569186021
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1880
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1853
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