Part 01: Alan Fraser Fry letters, 8th August 1914- 28 January 1917 - Page 50
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[Page 50]
This is too long a letter to write to every-one, so you can shew this to all who you think may like to read it, besides I may not be able to get another one through.
How we could manage to strike reefs on two consecutive nights, of course I am not in a position to say, but it seems very funny to me, that with a pilot on board, who should know every inch of the Coast, and a well chartered & well lighted coast too, that such a thing should happen. But some of us have our suspicions though of course it would not do to speak out too much in this case.
We must be very hard & fast, & I very much doubt if we will be any the better off when we do float away from the reef. I suppose we were at about 8 or 9 knots when we struck, and these reefs are very hard, so I would not be surprised if we had a good bit hole in us. It is quite on the books that if