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Identifier: newfoundlandatbe00harv (find matches)
Title: Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Harvey, M. (Moses), 1820-1901
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
Publisher: New York : The South Publishing Co.
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cheer, she turned and proceededto steam back to Halifax, her guns firing a royal salute oftwenty-one guns as she left us. The « Diadem» and «Niobe »now took up their duty of escorting the « Ophir» across theAtlantic. As is usually the case in this region, there was ahaze on the sea, and we had to cross the tracks of icebergs aswell as fishing craft, so the precaution was taken to change ourformation. Instead of the ships of the escort steaming as before, oneon each quarter of the «Ophir,» the «Diadem » was ordered tolead the way, maintaining a distance of one mile from the royalyacht, while the «Niobe» remained on the «Ophirs» portquarter. To the « Diadem,)) therefore, was alio ted the post ofhonor, her duty being to keep a sharp lookout for dangers.That very night during the middle watch we sighted, dimlylooming through the haze, an iceberg right ahead of us.It was estimated to be one hundred feet in length andforty in height. The «Diadem» altered her course so that
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NEWFOUNDLAND. 4/ we passed it on the starboard side. She signalled awarning to the « Ophir,» and throwing a searchlight on theberg revealed it to the following ships—a vague huge shapeof pale green, having no appearance of solidity, but lookingunsubstantial as some ghostly vapor. We crossed the Banks infine weather, rolling gently on an oily swell, but on our secondday out we encountered the first of a succession of gales thatmade our homeward voyage across the Atlantic somewhat un-comfortable. We were ever tumbling about in the heavy seas,rolling to considerable angles, occasionally shipping masses ofgreen water, our decks never dry.

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