The Wreck of the "Royal Charter": Compiled from Authentic Sources, with Some Original Matter — John Shaqi
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
Many other articles have appeared in the English journals; but those
here given will speak for the scope and tone of them all. British
sympathy was never perhaps more intensely quickened than it has been
by this unparalleled marine disaster. It is the topic of every tongue.
From almost every pulpit the subject was dwelt upon last Sunday. Mr.
Binney, who narrowly escaped coming home in the ship, preached with
pathetic power on the melancholy event of the week. Prayer was put up
for his miraculous preservation. Many good men have gone, but the blow
to Both Worlds--the Old and the New--would have been severe indeed if
the 'old man eloquent' had perished.
ADDENDA.
LIST OF STEERAGE PASSENGERS.
THE following list of steerage passengers is supplied by Mr. Lynch, of
Cashel, who was one of the fortunate passengers who landed at
Queenstown. The list is from memory:--
'Mr. Holland, wife and three children; had been in India, and was in
the volunteer corps. Two brothers named Hogarth, from Scotland; one
was married, and had a little boy about eight years old. Mr. and
Mrs. Lyons, from London, had two sons, one about ten and the other
about twelve. Mr. Lyons was a watchmaker. Mrs. Atkey, somewhere near
London, had a girl about sixteen. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy, from Bruff,
county Limerick, and three children. Mrs. Willis and two children,
one a little boy about nine and a girl eleven years, English. Mr.
Faulkner and little girl about six years old. Mr. Barrett, belonged
to the medical profession, and was employed to take care of Mr.
Henry, a lunatic, English. A young man, native of Dublin, about
twenty-six, named Kelly, dark foxy hair, worked at Prarhan, near
Melbourne, brickmaking. A musician, named Harris, an Irishman, but
was going to see his brother to London, or some of his friends, age
about twenty-eight, foxy whiskers and hair, low size, but stout and
smart looking. Mr. Wickett, another musician, about thirty, dark
complexion, and dark hair. George Taylor, age about forty-five, was
going to Belfast, and went out to Melbourne as doctor in the "Ben
Nevis," and was only just recovering from colonial fever; was but a
few months in Australia. Henry Laughton, from some part of
Lincolnshire, was going home to his wife and children, and was seven
years in the colony: he had a son ten years old, who wrote him a
letter to come home, and it was signed John Hudson Laughton. William
J. Green, London; had been some time in South Australia. Edward
Allen, London, red hair, and about thirty years old; was a digger. A
fine-looking young man named Bishop, about twenty-five years old,
from London. Two brothers named Roe, English. Peter and John Morton,
Cornwall, England. Bakewell, a draper, about twenty; tall, and light
hair. I think he was from London. A most respectable man, named
Wade; tall and slight make, with dark hair, and was some time at the
Ovens Diggings; English, age about forty.
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