Item 01: Oscar Rhodes diary, 26 June 1915-4 April 1916 - Page 6
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[Page 6]
a high sea. Shipping heaps of water down mess deck. Great amusement amongst men who by now are beginning to get their sea legs.
At about 8.30 a.m. with a great rain-storm appeared on the western horizon & travelling with great rapidity soon enveloped the approaching ship in a dense cloud of rain, hail & brine from the angry tumultuous sea. The wind blew with hurricane force but the good ship "Berrima" stuck to her task. The disturbance passed as quickly away as it had meteorically appeared & within the space of 15 minutes from striking the ship had passed away to eastward leaving us on the panting on the bosom of the cruelly beaten sea.
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