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Maritime Newspaper Articles - 1845

Old Newspaper
Transcriptions from various newspapers, by permission of The British Library.
--Generously contributed to ISTG by Alison Kilpatrick 2/04/2008.

Transcribed from the 4 February 1845 edition of The Armagh Guardian newspaper:
Another Dreadful Wreck.

--A melancholy shipwreck happened in the Cornish coast, all hands on board, excepting one seaman, meeting with a watery grave. The unfortunate vessel was a brig, called the William Pitt, belonging to Sunderland, Captain T. Bowser, master, laden with three thousand one hundred and ninety ardabes of beans, bound to Gloucester, from Alexandria. On Sunday morning the ship made Scilly and Long Ships Light. She then passed up the channel, when she encountered the storm, and sustaining considerable injury, the master was determined to run into the first harbour. That at Padstow being the first, the ship was brought before the wind, in order to run her in, when, unhappily, owing to the pilots not being at their posts, and the captain being unacquainted with that locality, she struck on the rocks on the St. Miner's side, and afterwards on the Dunbar, where she almost immediately went to pieces. One of the crew, named James Hewson, was saved by lashing himself to a spar, which was carried by the waves ashore. The rest of his companions, however, ten in number, met with a watery grave.


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