"Calliope'' Memories
p. 12 · Read in the full issue
A Toast To Samoa
RESIDENTS of Apia, reminded always by the sight of the “Adler” wreck of the 1889 hurricane, will be inter ested to know that the corvette, H.M.S.
“Calliope”—which was the only warship to escape the devastation—is still afloat, and is now the training ship of the Tyne Division, R.N.V.R.
On March 16, 1939, a dinner was held aboard the old ship, to commemorate
the fiftieth anniversary of her escape from the hurricane. The toast of ‘Samoa” was proposed by Captain E. W Swan, commander of the Division, and Admiral Wilmot S. Nicholson, who was in the “Calliope” during the famous in cident in Samoa, replied to the toast.
The “Calliope”, in 1889, was a new ship of 2,765 tons, ship-rigged, and with engines giving her 15 knots under full steam.