2-640-871 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Wreck of the Lady Hobart, 1803', 1925. The 'Lady Hobart' was a Post Office packet which sank after striking an iceberg en route to England from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The crew abandoned ship and survived a 350 mile voyage back to land despite suffering from malnutrition and frostbite. From Adventures By Sea From Art of Old Time, by Basil Lubbock. [The Studio Ltd., London, 1925]