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White Wings Vol I. Fifty Years Of Sail In The New Zealand Trade, 1850 TO 1900

An Ugly Story

An Ugly Story.

Those on board the Badger knew what vessel it was that had run them down, and when they landed from the Alice Cameron at Sydney the ugly story began to get about. It was the American steamer Nevada that had crashed into them. The Nevada belonged to the Webb Line, which at that time was running the mails under contract with the New Zealand Government between San Francisco and New Zealand, and then on to Sydney. She was a big side-wheel steamer of 2400 tons, her ponderouspage 16 paddles being worked by huge beam engines that worked through the deck and gave her a very strange appearance. Not a word had been said by the Nevada people when they reached Sydney, so the sensation that was caused by the arrival of the Alice Cameron with the rescued crew and passengers of the Badger was all the more profound.