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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

Compiler: John Arbuckle Reid


Release date: June 22, 2023 [eBook #71021]
Most recently updated: December 28, 2025

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1895

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BATTLING WITH WAVES AND LAWYERS ***

Battling with Waves
and Lawyers

THIRD EDITION. REVISED AND ENLARGED.

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.

COMPILED BY
J. ARBUCKLE REID

AUTHOR OF “THE AUSTRALIAN READER,” “SEAMEN AND SHIPWRECKS,” ETC.

“Truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”

Byron.

“Go, little book, God send thee good passage,
And specially let this be thy prayere
Unto them all that thee will read or hear,
Where thou art wrong, after their help to call,
Thee to correct in any part or all.”
Chaucer.


LONDON

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LTD.