Around 11 o’clock in the morning on Friday, 29 December 1893, two ladies out for a stroll on the Sorrento Back beach discovered the unconscious body of a man. He would prove to be the sole survivor of the steamer Alert, which sank during foul weather. The S.S. Alert had left Bairnsdale at 4 PMContinue reading “The Foundering of the S.S. Alert – 1893”
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Tales from the Quarterdeck 