Log of Commonwealth, 30 January 1895-June 1899
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- Series 39/27
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Copy of log of Commonwealth
(17p.)
Details: loading 8 miles of cable wire for cable tram cars in Melbourne; finding stowaways; discharging and loading up the Yarra; cargo includes tins of rabbit; visiting Sandridge races on Queen's birthday holiday; 2nd voyage to Melbourne; then in ballast of slippery mud to Newcastle to load coal; 'the harbour looked splendid, one mass of masts and yards gaily decorated with flags of all nations for there were over 120 ships in harbour waiting for coal owing to miners' strike'; waited 3.5 months in harbour; fire on board; loaded coal for Valparaiso; voyage from Rotterdam to Sydney; loading wool at Woolloomooloo; 'off Gippsland, Victoria North Westerly wind enveloped us in smoke from Bush fires', voyage to Boston; in ballast to Albany; loading Karra wood for London.
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