In
the storm which happened here on Wednesday night, the 6th instant, a ship, the
name and master unknown, with passengers and convicts on board, was drove on
shore at Ballymakaw, near Tramore Bay, and the crew, master, &c. on board
her, to the number of twenty, perished in the sea, except the Super-Cargo, who
had the good luck to save himself by getting ashore on a plank, but now lies
dangerously ill; said vessel came from Glasgow, and was bound to Cork to
complete her lading, and from whence to proceed to America; her said lading
chiefly consists of wearing apparel, linens, and other dry goods. Proper
persons are sent down to hinder her being plundered by the country people, and
care taken to save and preserve as much cargo, hull, & c. of said ship, as
is possible.[1]
Further
details from Waterford, on 23 October:
Last
Wednesday night, a vessel from Glasgow, bound to Cork, called the Port Glasgow,
Alexander Haddington, master, was drove by the storm on a rock near Donmore,
within a few miles of Tramore, near Waterford, where she was dashed to pieces:
the master and twenty of the men on board, were found drowned on the strand
next morning; two others had some life and were taken care of by a humane
gentleman, notwithstanding which, one of them died the same day, the only man
alive out of 23, is the super-cargo of the vessel. They were part of the goods
saved, consisting of some linen blue and white checks, Scotch handkerchiefs,
threads, stockings, & c. but the whole was very inconsiderable.
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