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
I have already observ'd what Fleets were in the several Ports of this
Nation, and from whence they came: As to Ships lost of whom we have no
other Account than that they were never heard of. I am not able to give
any Perticulars, other than that about three and forty Sail of all Sorts
are reckon'd to have perished in that manner. I mean of such Ships as
were at Sea, when the Storm began, and had no Shelter or Port to make
for their Safety: Of these, some were of the _Russia_ Fleet, of whom we
had an Account of 20 Sail lost the Week before the great Storm, but most
of them reach'd the Ports of _Newcastle_, _Humber_ and _Yarmouth_, and
some of the Men suffered in the general Distress afterwards.
But to proceed to the most general Disasters, by the same Method, as in
the former Articles of Damages by Land. Several Persons having given
themselves the Trouble to further this Design with Authentick
Particulars from the respective Ports. I conceive we cannot give the
World a clearer and more Satisfactory Relation than from their own
Words.
_The first Account, and plac'd so, because 'tis very Authentick and
Particular, and the furthest Port_ Westward, _and therefore proper to
begin our Relation, is from on Board her Majesty's Ship the_ Dolphin
_in_ Milford Haven, _and sent to us by Capt_. Soanes, _the Commodore of
a Squadron of Men of War then in that Harbour, to whom the Public is
very much oblig'd for the Relation, and which we thought our selves
bound there to acknowledge. The Account is as follows_,
_SIR_,
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