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Message: [QUOTE="Mark Baber, post: 276421, member: 79063"] [i]The Advertiser, Adelaide, 12 February 1901 Retrieved from the National Library of Australia web site, [url="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper"]http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper[/url][/i] [b]SHIPPING NEWS[/b] *** The White Star liner Runic, which arrived on Monday, left Liverpool on January 3 at 8.13 p.m. She had strong south-east winds and heavy sea crossing the Bay of Biscay, but moderate north-east trades. The equator was crossed on January 15 in long. 10Â° W.; thence to Table Bay moderate to fresh south-east winds were experienced. She reached Cape Town on January 24 at 5.30 a.m., and after landing passengers and embarking mails and passengers left at 4.10 p m. same day. The easting was run down in lat. 45Â° S., moderate to strong westerly breezes prevailing until two days before arrival, when strong north-east winds were encountered to Cape Borda, which was passed at 4 a.m. on February 11. The passage from Liverpool was made in 37 days 21 hours 4 minutes. Captain Kempson has with him as officers:- Messrs. T. Kidwell (formerly of the Oceanic), chief; E. J. Fletcher (Medic), first; J. Fox, R.N.R., second; W. B. Sewell, third; E. Pilcher, fourth; Dr. S. S. Defree, surgeon; Messrs. M. Barry (Medic), steward in charge; G. Wright (Persic), chief engineer; W. H. Lyon, second; J. Turner, third; J. W. Pascoe, third extra; E. G. Sterine, fourth; H. Furlong, fifth; D. Whiteford, sixth; F. O. Hoyes, seventh; R. Muir, refrigerating engineer. The weather was so hazy and so thick with smoke that when the Runic passed Cape Borda it was barely possible to make the headland out. The heat was very oppressive ashore, but tempered by the breeze across the sea, and the people of the Star [sic; no "White" in original] liner rather liked it, as they had experienced very cold weather on the voyage. The vessel has 8,000 tons of cargo on board, and discharges 1,100 here. On the voyage out a child named Gladys Mary Mountford, three years of age, died on January 27. She was on the passenger list for New South Wales. The vessel will probably sail at midnight to-night. -30- [/QUOTE]

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