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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524542" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Birth Of The ‘Shepherdess’</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ‘Shepherdess’ arrived at <br>Constant Bay on Sunday <br>afternoon 1879 31st August<br>sea calm virtually no wind<br>but no harbourmaster on duty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she lay off the entrance harbour<br>until the following morning <br>awaiting signalled to enter port<br>light breeze weather fine clear</div><div style="margin:10px 0">attempting to tow the schooner<br>‘Shepherdess’ into port<br>through narrow rocky entrance<br>using a dinghy surf boat<br>to secure anchorage mooring rocks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">suddenly a large wave swamped <br>stout dinghy threw<br>Thomas Bailie, Charles Craddock<br>into tidal sea surge<br>Bailie managed to clamber back</div><div style="margin:10px 0">into surf boat then pulled dragged<br>Charles Craddock<br>back in but tragically immediately <br>a second wave smashed<br>into the boat, overturned the boat</div><div style="margin:10px 0">again two men are thrown into surf<br>what wave force<br>second wave overturned the dinghy<br>impossible to right<br>no option but try to swim for shore</div><div style="margin:10px 0">pounding surf smashed valiant efforts<br>into ocean inlet <br>floor time time again, each try time<br>it hope appeared<br>they might reach safety, wild breakers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">drove two back, while crowd watched <br>life drama helplessly<br>two men struggled, desperately constantly<br>for their mortal lives <br>none attempted, dive into boiling waters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">none thought to throw hope a rope<br>a large crowd gathered<br>perhaps none could swim wild tide<br>finally a rope was found<br>they tried to throw to struggling men</div><div style="margin:10px 0">three times four more rope was flung<br>delay was to late<br>weak limbs could not grab last hope<br>too late too late<br>Thomas Bailie made a desperate lunge</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for last life spent ebb hope the rope<br>gasps watchers eyes<br>Bailie starfish clings hung with tenacity<br>a man who surely knew<br>to release life thread was to brine drown</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bailie was dragged from sea by watchers<br>on a rocky shore <br>but Charles Craddock was spent exhausted <br>by fearsome struggle<br>could not swim in could not swim reach rope</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Charles sank beneath waves once twice<br>re-surfaced struggles<br>struggles shoreward struggles Charles sank <br>below waves third<br>time last time Charles was gone lost lost...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to a brine grave while wild breakers<br>breaking broadside<br>across the ‘Shepherdess’ bumped<br>schooner toward port<br>good news tragedy overshadowed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Charles Craddock in death left a wife<br>three children in 1879<br>body swept away never recovered<br>a fortnight accident after<br>a leg was washed ashore duly buried</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this leg was buried in Charleston cemetery <br>a belief in Craddock family <br>maintains though event was not recorded<br>in cemetery burial records<br>Constant Bay life lost in adverse conditions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>See also the poem ‘Where Unknown Ancestors Died’.<br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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Constant Bay on Sunday 
afternoon 1879 31st August
sea calm virtually no wind
but no harbourmaster on duty

she lay off the entrance harbour
until the following morning 
awaiting signalled to enter port
light bree..."></div>
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