The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . ound for Limerick. The crew amount-ed to fourteen men, with the captain and mate; they hadfine weather for a few days, but it afterwards blew so hardthat they were obliged to drive before the wind. At threeoclock in the morning of December 3d, the vessel, throughthe carelessness of the helmsman, suddenly broached to, andin less than an hour she lay on her beam ends, the greaterpart of the crew saving themselves by clinging to the rig-ging. Patrick Cusack and Patrick Behane were drown
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . ound for Limerick. The crew amount-ed to fourteen men, with the captain and mate; they hadfine weather for a few days, but it afterwards blew so hardthat they were obliged to drive before the wind. At threeoclock in the morning of December 3d, the vessel, throughthe carelessness of the helmsman, suddenly broached to, andin less than an hour she lay on her beam ends, the greaterpart of the crew saving themselves by clinging to the rig-ging. Patrick Cusack and Patrick Behane were drownedin the forecastle, and Griffith, the mate, in the after captain and Mulville got to the fore and mainmasts,and cut them away; the mizzen-topmast went with themover the side, and the ship immediately righted. As soonas she righted, she settled down in the sea, and there wasscarcely any thing to be seen of her except the poop andbulwarks. No situation could be more miserable than thatof the unfortunate crew, standing ankle deep on the wreck,in a winters night, and chnging to whatever was nearest,. I I S6 FAMINE ON BOARD THE FRANCIS SPAIGHT. as sea after sea rolled successively over them. On thedawn, they discovered that their provisions had beenwashed overboard, and they had no means of coming atany fresh water. The gale continued unabated, and forsafety and shelter they gathered into the cabin under thepoop. Even here, she was so deep with water, a dry plankcould not be found, and their only rest was by standing closetogether. At ten oclock in the forenoon, a vessel was de-scried to the westward, but she stood far away beyond thereach of signal, and was soon out of sight. That day andthe next passed away without any change in the the third, it began to moderate. There were thirteenhands alive, and not one had tasted a morsel of food sincethe wreck, and they had only three bottles of wine ; thiswas served out in wine-glasses, at long intervals. Therewas som
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