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There is a fascination about the work of a pilot, which all lovers of the sea recognised. The writer of this article describes his little-known daily routine and shows that these winter days there are more comfortable occupations than...
Staggered ashore to sleep for hours before help came Sorrento Friday “it seems like a terrible nightmare to me now said John Johansson 35, seamen in the pilot service from the bed of the Sorento police station tonight....
John Johanssen one of two men who were blown adrift in an open boat when going from the pilot steamer Victoria to Queenscliff last night was picked up on the back beach at Rye this afternoon, alive. He says that his companion...
At the meeting of the Marine Board yesterday reference was made to the good work done by the Port Phillip Sea Pilots. The following resolution moved by Mr R Dickens, was adopted unanimously; "That in the view of the weather conditions which...
Taking the Pilot, July 27, 1881, wood engraving. State Library of Victoria, image No: mp004608 Boarding an incoming ship outside the Heads was, and still is, perhaps the most dangerous part of a sea pilot’s life. ...
Wreck of the pilot boat Rip. “She was standing out through the broken water at the entrance to Port Phillip Heads, heavy seas continually breaking on board, when, in attempting to wear, she was struck...