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Battling with Waves and Lawyers

Battling with Waves and Lawyers

by John Arbuckle Reid

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Compiler
Reid, John Arbuckle
Title
Battling with waves and lawyers : a genuine history of perils of the deep and an authentic record of the most important shipping case ever dealt with in the supreme courts of Australasia
Original Publication
United Kingdom: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1895.
Credits
Bob Taylor, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
VK: Naval science: Navigation, Merchant marine
Subject
Liability for marine accidents
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 71021
Release Date
June 22, 2023
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Battling with Waves and Lawyers
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.CONTENTS. — ILLUSTRATIONS.
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.Untitled
  6. 6.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
  7. 7.CHAPTER II. SORRENTO AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.
  8. 8.CHAPTER III. THE DISCOVERY AND RESUSCITATION OF ROBERT PONTING.
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTION OF THE ALERT .
  10. 10.CHAPTER V. THE VOYAGE.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI. AMONG THE BILLOWS.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII NIGHT.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. MORNING.
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX. THE LANDING.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X. HINTS ON SWIMMING.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI. GRATITUDE.
  17. 17.Untitled
  18. 18.Battling with the Lawyers.
  19. 19.Untitled
  20. 20.FOOTNOTES:
  21. 21.Untitled
  22. 22.Untitled
  23. 23.Untitled
  24. 24.Untitled
  25. 25.Untitled
  26. 26.Untitled
  27. 27.Untitled
  28. 28.Battling with Waves and Lawyers. — FOOTNOTES:
  29. 29.Final Battle with the Lawyers. — FOOTNOTES:
  30. 30.The Division of the Spoil.
  31. 31.Transcriber’s Notes

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