Maritime Newspaper Articles - 1824
20 January 1824 edition:
Capture of a Smuggler
-We feel considerable satisfaction in announcing the capture of another of those pests of the fair trader, a "Smuggler." She was discovered off the Head of Kinsale about half past four o'clock on Monday evening, by the Clinton schooner, attached to his Majesty's ship Semiramis, having been only a short time hovering about the coast, to dispose of her crop, as it is now termed, when she was fell in with and captured.--She proves to be the Lark of and from Middleburgh, ninety tons burthen, and a compliment [sic] of 17 men; our account does not state if armed, which such a number on board would imply, and a cargo of 565 bales of tobacco[,] 30 chests of tea, and a quantity of spirits. We are of opinion that more severe laws than those attached to the nefarious practice of smuggling should be enacted to crush this crying evil--an evil of great magnitude in the South of Ireland--for to it is to be attributed the loss of the valuable lives on board the Arab, which we lately noticed.
A smuggler was captured by the Redbreast revenue cutter, stationed at Freistone shore, in Boston Deeps, on Thursday week. She is a vessel of considerable burden, richly laden, and had a crew of nine men, who escaped in the boat. The cargo consists of 318 half ankers of Geneva, besides 50 bales of dry goods, containing tobacco or snuff; others plate glass; and others highly finished Dutch paintings, of great value.
13 January 1824 edition:
On the 24th ult. the Triton, from Whitehaven, coal laden, was wrecked at Ballyshannon. She got safely over the bar about three quarters of a mile, and was proceeding up the channel, where she grounded. Before the next tide after, the storm set in with such violence that she was drove amongst a reef of rocks where she became a complete wreck; but we are happy to add, that none of the persons on board perished. About sixty tons of the cargo were saved. A flute, tambourine, and several other articles have been cast on shore below Mount Charles, in Donegal Bay, supposed to be from the Arab sloop of war, lately lost off Broadhaven.
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