Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century.
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Quebec Gazette #6667 07/06/1847. | ||
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| Wrecks. The following appeared on the Exchange Register of yesterday: "We learn from William Stevenson, Esquire, who arrived here this morning, from Halifax, that the Miracle, from Liverpool to Quebec, with passengers was lost on the Magdalen Islands, about the 26th ultimo, and that sixty of her passengers were drowned in landing, and that the remainder had arrived at Pictou in a sickly and destitute state. And that the Zenobia, with 179 passengers for Quebec, was wrecked at Menadieu, on or about the 26th ultimo. Also, a vessel from Sunderland, with coals and goods, (name not known) was wrecked on Scatarie Island, about the same time. We are indebted to Messrs. Pembertons for the following extract of a letter giving the melancholy account of the loss of the brig Carricks, of Whitehaven, R. Thompson, master, from Sligo, to this port, with passengers: | ||
| "Cape Rosier, 19th May, 1847. | ||
| "I am sorry to inform you, that the brig Carricks was wrecked about 4 miles to the eastward of this place, and, shocking to relate, out of 167 passengers, only 48 reached the shore. The crew, except one boy, were all saved. Little will be saved; but what there is, together with the wreck, will be sold for the benefit of all concerned, on Saturday next." | ||
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Quebec Gazette #6669 11/06/1847. | ||
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In an extract of a letter dated Cape Rosier, May 19th, which
appeared in our paper of Monday last, announcing the melancholy
fate of the brig Carricks, R. Thompson, master, from Sligo, which
was lost near that place with all her passengers except 48, and
one boy belonging to her crew, the number of passengers was
stated to be 167; so that 119 of them would appear to have
perished, and, with the boy, in all 120 persons. In looking over
a file of Irish papers received by last mail, we have met with
the following extract from a Sligo paper, according to which the
number drowned, including the boy would be 129, instead of 120,
unless the ill-fated ship had already lost 9 of her passengers
before the awful catastrophe by which so many of the Foreign
Secretary's late tenants were consigned to a water grave: "Sligo, May 1. From the 5th of January up to this date, 3,239 persons left this port direct for America. Of this number 176 went in the Carricks, which was chartered by Lord Palmerston." |
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| G.R. Bossé©2000-07. | Posted: August 15, 2000. |
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