The Wreck of the "Royal Charter": Compiled from Authentic Sources, with Some Original MatterFowler, Frank
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The Wreck of the "Royal Charter": Compiled from Authentic Sources, with Some Original Matter
Fowler, Frank
Royal Charter (Ship); Shipwrecks -- Wales -- Anglesey
'MOLFRA BAY, Tuesday, Nov. the 2nd.--It is necessary that the
public should be on their guard against the rumours in circulation
as to the discoveries made by the divers who commenced operations on
Sunday. It was reported as an established fact in Bangor last night
that one of the divers had entered the saloon of the "Royal
Charter," and there found about 200 passengers in the positions they
occupied when the ship went down; some sitting round the table,
others standing upright, and others as if in the act of coming from
their berths. A similar story was told some six or seven years ago,
after the wreck of a large steamer off the Bailey Light, Hill of
Howth. Indeed, in that case, the diver was made to describe some of
the passengers as in the act of lifting glasses to their mouths. The
lie was printed, and obtained very general circulation before it was
contradicted. The less detailed account is in the present case
equally destitute of foundation. Two experienced divers, who came
from Liverpool in the steam-tug "Fury," the property of Gibb,
Brights, and Co., made a descent yesterday, and remained a
considerable time under the water, but they saw no corpses beneath;
neither did they find any gold; but they saw some copper. This
morning they resumed their descents under very favourable
circumstances as regards weather and the state of the sea. They have
discovered no bodies; but up to one o'clock this afternoon they had
succeeded, with the assistance given them by men on board the
steam-tug, in raising about three tons of copper bars. These bars
have undergone some smelting, but are not in a finished state. There
is a good deal of silver mixed with the copper. At one o'clock the
divers suspended operations for a short rest and refreshment. They
resumed after about an hour's interval.
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