MARINE. 2 manuscripts, Saint-Nazaire March 22 and 24, 1878; 6 1/2 pages in-fol. Handwritten reports on the sinking of the ship Liberté-Pour-Tous, following an exceptional storm on March 22 and 24, 1878. They are intended for shipowner Gabriel Lauriol and his insurers, and recount the dramatic events that occurred "on board the French three-masted barque Liberté-Pour-Tous, of the Port of Nantes", caught in a tropical cyclone off South Africa in the Indian Ocean... These two reports give an account of the damage caused to the ship and its cargo loaded in Bimlipatam (India)...