The
Mona, J Foulks master, was a three masted, square rigged ship of 317 tons burden;
with a draught of water of 13 ft. when loaded. She was built on the River
Thames in 1787 and sheathed with copper in 1801, owned by Penny & C. She
held an A1 classification and was last described as a constant trader between
Liverpool and Africa.[1]
The
Mona, Foulkes, from Jamaica to Liverpool, is totally lost off Bonmahon, near
Waterford, crew saved. Part of the Dollars and some bales of cotton saved.[2]
Cork,
3 January, On Wednesday morning last in a gale of wind, the ship Mona, Captain
Foulkes, laden with sugars, coffee, cocoa &c. and bound from Kingston to
Liverpool was lost off Bonmahon strand, together with nearly her entire cargo-crew
saved.[3]
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