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Captain M'Quhae's Sea Serpent
Captain M'Quhae's Sea Serpent
Written By Mister Gu on Monday, December 2, 2013 | 3:00 AM
On August 6, 1848, Captain Peter M’Quhae and officers of the HMS Daedalus saw a 60-foot serpentine animal in the South Atlantic between the Cape of Good Hope and the island of Saint Helena, on passage from the East Indies to England, about 300 miles off the coast of Namibia. At about 5:00 P.M. M'Quhae, Lieutenant Edgar Drummond, and William Barrett, sailing master, were pacing the quarterdeck