Some unreferenced and early sources claim that the Olga was a Russian ship, and that the Nipsic was Japanese.
This is not true, and is probably caused by those names sounding "ethnic" to an uninformed observer.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote an account of this disaster, differing from this article in A footnote to history.
Some unreferenced and early sources claim that the Olga was a Russian ship, and that the Nipsic was Japanese. This is not true, and is probably caused by those names sounding "ethnic" to an uninformed observer.
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote an account of this disaster, differing from this article in A footnote to history.
1889 Apia cyclone