Charles George Douglas Roberts. See “A Ballad of Manila Bay.”
The destructive hurricane at Apia (island of Upolu, Samoa), occurred on
the 15th of March, 1889. Three German and three American warships were
either driven ashore, or crushed upon the coral reefs, and nearly one
hundred and fifty lives were lost. The British ship which breasted the
terrific force of the storm, and succeeded in escaping from the harbor,
was the corvette _Calliope_. The American flag-ship was the _Trenton_
(see poem), carrying the flag of Rear-Admiral Kimberley.
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