Helen Jackson Piper papers

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Title
Helen Jackson Piper papers
Date
1901-1902
Traveller
  • Piper, Helen Jackson
Reference
A P66 folder 2
Region
  • North America
  • East Asia
  • Australasia
  • South-East Asia
Country
  • Canada
  • United States
  • Indonesia
  • Australia
  • China
  • Malaysia
  • Taiwan
Places
  • Washington (state)
  • Port Townsend
  • Honolulu
  • Hawaii
  • Lombok Strait
  • Perth
  • Fremantle
  • Shanghai
  • Penang
Description
In November 1901, Helen Jackson Piper (1882-1958) left Vancouver, Canada, on board the ship Benjamin Sewall bound for Fremantle, Australia. In October 1902 the ship was wrecked by a typhoon off the coast of Taiwan. A bound typescript entitled 'The Girl in the Lifeboat', an account of her voyage, written by Piper and edited by William and Esther Prosser in 1959. 'The Girl in the Lifeboat' contains her 1902 journal which, with other information about the ship, was published in Douglas Egan, Ship Benjamin Sewall (1983).
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