Total
Loss of an American Vessel
We
(Dublin Mercantile Advertiser) have received the following melancholy account
in a private letter.
Dunmore
East, Thursday, June 8.
Since
I wrote last evening we have witnessed a very melancholy scene. A large
American barque, laden with cotton, has been wrecked on Brownstown Head. There
were sixteen hands on board and only one saved out of the whole crew. At
present the gale is not eased, only drawn a little more to the west.[1]
Shipwrecks
at Brownstown Head
Wednesday
evening, at about 6 p.m. a large American barque the William Ladd, from Mobile
to Liverpool, laden with cotton went on shore at Horseleap Glen, near
Brownstown Head. The mate swam on shore and says the master (Wyman) and two
blacks were drowned and there were five more hands on board who expected to get
off at the fall of the tide; the bales of cotton were being washed ashore; the
Coast guards were in charge of the property. It is reported that all hands were
lost except the captain and mate, but this does not appear well founded; the
vessel is said to have been knocked to pieces on the rocks near the place where
the Aurore was lost and all hands perished except the captain (Howlan), a most
dangerous part of the coast and one on which a vessel has little chance of
escape.
About
the middle of the same night, the ketch or galliot, De Spiruit, of Te Bult,
from Schiedam, bound to Liverpool, in Ballast, Arrand St. Karsyns, master, was
driven on shore near Rathwhelan Cove, to the westward of Waterford harbour,
where she went to pieces. The Master’s son and two of the crew were lost. The
captain, mate and two men escaped by means of a piece of timber. The captain
did not know where they were; the air was so thick on Wednesday that he could
not take the sun. Mr. Alexander, R. Pope, agent to Lloyd’s and American Consul
was on the spot at an early hour; the Coast Guards rendered most effectual
services[2]
Waterford Chronicle, 17 June 1843.
Waterford Chronicle, 1 July 1843.
Waterford Chronicle, 1 July 1843.
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