The Bertha in full sail. Postcard by Hood, Sydney.
The German sailor, the tailor’s daughter and the tragic White Wife of Otterswick
MAYBE young German sailor Adolf Nordman dreamed of being more than friends with Nellie Shephard, the tailor's pretty young daughter whom he met in the port of Newcastle, NSW, in 1909. His postcards, written in the years before the outbreak of World…
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The German sailor, the tailor’s daughter and the tragic White Wife of Otterswick