Waterford
31 January: Last Wednesday night the brig, King’s Weston, of Kinsale, William
Loveless Master, was drove on shore to the westward of Tramore, in a violent
gale of wind, the vessel was dashed to pieces and the cargo lost. She was
loaded with coals, bound from Swansea to Kinsale, left Swansea on Tuesday last
and sprang a leak in the storm on Wednesday morning. Two of the hands died
before the vessel was drove in by fatigue of pumping. Soon as the vessel
struck, a woman passenger, named Bennet, (wife of Serjeant Bennet, of the 9th
Regiment) and her child were washed over-board and drowned; the master and mate
got up in the fore-shrouds, and remained there till the sea ebbed far out, and
then by the humane assistance of Mr John Rogers, Coast Officer and his people,
they were hauled in from the wreck with ropes.[1]
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