The Storm: or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, both by Sea and LandDefoe, Daniel
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The Storm: or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, both by Sea and Land
Defoe, Daniel
Storms -- Early works to 1800
_Impri_. Five Boats drove out of the Cob and one Vessel lost, broke
loose all but one Cabel, and swung out of the Cob, but was got in
again with little Damage; and had that Hurricane happened here at
High Water, the Cob must without doubt have been destroyed, and all
the Vessels in it been lost, most of the Houses had some Damage: But
a great many Trees blown up by the Roots in our Neighbourhood, and
four Miles to the Eastward of this Town: A _Guernsey_ Privateer of
eight Guns, and 43 Men drove Ashoar, and but three Men saved of the
43; the place where the said Privateer run Ashoar, is call'd _Sea
Town_, half a Mile from _Chidock_, where most of there Houses were
uncovered, and one Man killed as he lay in Bed: This is the true
Account here, but all Villages suffered extreamly in Houses, Trees,
both Elm and Apples without Number.
_Sir, I am your humble Servant_,
Stephen Bowdidge.
_From_ Margate, _and the Island of_ Thanet _in_ Kent, _the following is
an honest Account_.
_SIR_,
The following Account is what I can give you, of what Damage is done
in this Island in the late great Storm; in this Town hardly a House
escaped without Damage, and for the most part of them the Tiles
blown totally off from the Roof, and several Chimneys blown down,
that broke through part of the Houses to the Ground; and several
Families very narrowly escaped being kill'd in their Beds, being by
Providence just got up, so that they escaped, and none was kill'd;
the like Damages being done in most little Towns and Villages upon
this Island, as likewise Barns, Stables and Out-housing blown down
to the Ground in a great many Farm-houses and Villages within the
Island, part of the Leads of our Church blown clear off, and a great
deal of Damage to the Church it self; likewise a great deal of
Damage to the Churches of St. _Lawrance Minster_, _Mounton_ and St.
_Nichola_: In this Road was blown out one _Latchford_ of _Sandwich_
bound home from _London_, with divers Men and Women passengers all
totally lost: And another little Pink that is not heard of blown
away at the same time, but where it belonged is not known; here rid
out the Storm the Princess _Anne_, Captain _Charles Gye_, and the
_Swan_, both Hospital Ships, had no Damage, only Captain _Gye_ was
parted from one of his Anchors, and part of a Cable which was
weigh'd and carry'd after him to the River, by one of our Hookers.
All from
_Yours to Command_,
P.H.
_From_ Malden _in_ Essex, _and from_ Southampton, _the following
Accounts_.
_SIR_,
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