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Show storm in 1S23 the Purveyor was driven driv-en from her moorings at Poole, with a man and boy on board, and landed high and dry in a iurnlp field at Park-stone. Park-stone. The owner was compelled to employ a number of navvies to dig a channel from the ship to the sea in order to float her off. Ship's Adventurous C.yreer. The old vessel "The Seii." Id which he Norwegian skipper Relnersten recently re-cently sailed from Biddeforrt, Devonshire, Devon-shire, for Durban, Natal, haa an interesting inter-esting history. Originally known as "The Purveyor," 6he was built at Southampton In 1810 to carry provisions provis-ions to the men-of-war lying at Spit-head. Spit-head. Made of good English oak and lined with copper, the vessel was sold later to Captain Thomas Masters, who stripped off the copper and put her In the coasting trade. During a great |