The Liverpool Pilot-Boat No. 8 Leading Twelve Vessels into the Mersey During the Last Gale. Source: Illustrated London News 42 (27 May 1863): 601. Click on image to enlarge it.
During the violent gales of last week a great number of vessels which had left the port of Liverpool, mostly on the previous Saturday, were obliged to make their way back to that port as best they could, and many of them got into the Mersey, with considerable difficulty, on the Tuesday evening, their dismantled condition bearing evidence of the violence of the weather outside in the loss of masts, spars, and sails. The weather, being too tempestuous, rendered it impossible to board them with pilots, and twelve of them were led in line through the channels safely into the Mersey by No. 8 pilot-boat, where each vessel was boarded—a most important service, reflecting great credit on the crew of the boat. We have engraved a sketch taken by out correspondent at Liverpool. The steamer is the African Royal mail Steam-ship Athenian; the next vessel, with the foretopmast gone, the barque Richard Cobden, from Bombay; then come the ship Lord Dufferin, for Savannah, with her sails blown away; the schooner Persia, and others, under close-reefed topsails.
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“The Liverpool Pilot Boats in the Late Gale.” Source: Illustrated London News 48 (27 January 1866): 81-82. HathiTrust online version of a copy in the University of Michigan Library. Web. 26 September 2022.
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