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IN NATURE, vol. xxiv. p. 106, you mention a “singular case of shipwreck” caused by waves and spray freezing on a steamer and sinking it by its weight. Cases of this kind caused by frozen spray alone are known near the east coast of the Black Sea. North of 44°, where the mountains are not very high, an exceedingly strong and sudden north-east wind is frequent, quite similar to the Dalmatian Bora, and called alike. It descends at a certain angle to the sea, raising a great quantity of spray. In winter this spray immediately freezes, and ships may sink by its weight. On January 25, 1848, a war-ship, anchored in the middle of the Bay of Noerrossiisk, sank in this manner. As the weather was fine before, a great part of the crew were ashore, and the storm arrived with such suddenness that the ship sank from the weight of the frozen spray. On account of the bora this coast is avoided by merchant-ships in winter, and visited only by a line of steamers subventioned by the Government.
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WOEIKOF, A. A Singular Cause of Shipwreck. Nature 24, 142 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024142d0
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