Christmas Morning 1885

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Christmas morning, 1885, brought with it a severe cyclone in the Indian Ocean. The Pictou barque William H. McNeil, Captain Thomas Russell O'Brien, with a cargo of sugar from the Philippines for New York, was caught in the storm. Some sails were in tatters, others the crew managed to furl, as Captain O'Brien kept his vessel into the wind to try to ride out the fierce cyclone. After surviving the storm, she limped into Mauritius.