R. Skelton's Deliverance from a Typhoon in the China Sea
Published October 4, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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Millennial Star Research
R. Skelton, traveling by ship from Macau toward San Francisco, escaped a typhoon in the China Sea that dismasted a number of other vessels.
In Their Own Words
“Relative to my passage, thus far I have to say, it has been a pleasant one indeed. I cannot but acknowledge the signal mercy of God over me, having escaped a Typhoon in which a number of vessels were dismasted, sailing up the China sea. — Millennial Star 18:39”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 27 September 1856 (Vol. 18, No. 39). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1856-09-27_18_39 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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