Mr. Fennel, first lieutenant, and Mr. Galvin, the master's
mate, were both formerly prisoners at Guadeloupe with Colonel
Wetherall, and were all for a considerable time chained by the
legs together. Lieut. Fennell declared to Lieut. Campbell that
his only motive in coming out in La Tribune was to have the
pleasure of seeing Colonel Wetherall; and such appears to have
been the attachment of Galvin to Lieut. Fennel that, though he
speaks with becoming feeling of the fate of the ship's
company, the loss of Lieut. Fennell seems peculiarly to affect
him. On enquiring of him if he saw Lieut. Fennell after the
ship sunk, he replied, he did not, for if he had, though he
was himself in a place of apparent security, he would again
have risked his life to preserve him, and would have effected
it or perished with him. A similar attachment to each other
appears among the men who have survived the wreck, and these
circumstances unite to prove that the virtues which render
human beings the most pleasing are those they are taught in
the trying school of adversity.
* * * * *
List of the officers lost in La Tribune:--Captain, Scory
Barker; First Lieutenant, Thomas Fennel; Second do., Thomas
Clarke; Third do., Thomas Sheirp; Master, James Clubb;
Lieutenant Marines, James Cregg; Surgeon, ---- Jones; Purser,
---- Stanford; Carpenter, James Jurd; Boatswain, John
Franklin; Master's Mate, William Stacey; Midshipmen, John
Dennington, Charles Belcher, John Clowdsley, William Crofton,
---- Nops; Captain's Clerk, William Foley; Surgeon's Mate,
James Mulquinney; Gunner, William Thomas.
List of officers and men saved from La Tribune:--John Galvin,
Master's Mate; Seamen, Abraham Wanhill, James Crawford, Robert
Parker, Daniel Monroe, E. Knowles, Richard Best, James Green,
Henry Husley, Chris. Dowling, Robert Dunlap and John White.
* * * * *
We have been favored with the following extract of General
Orders dated Halifax, November 26, 1797:
Lieutenant General, His Royal Highness Prince Edward thinks it
his duty to return his particular thanks to Lieutenants
Haliburton, Campbell and Nooth of the Royal Fusiliers, also to
the several non-commissioned officers and privates of the
Royal Nova Scotia Regiment, who manned the boats sent to give
assistance on Thursday last to His Majesty's frigate Tribune,
unfortunately wrecked by getting on shore at the mouth of this
harbour.
His Royal Highness most sincerely laments the loss of Lieut.
James and two non-commissioned officers with four privates of
the Royal N. S. Regiment, who were unfortunately drowned in
executing the first of all duties, that of giving succor to
brother officers and men in distress.
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