More information : `The DOWSON, Best, from Leverpool, and the BETSEY, Williams, from Chester, are both lost at Scilly, the people saved.' (2)
The above comes from an account of five vessels lost at Scilly in this issue of LL, which agrees with an account in the subsquent issue:
`Capt. Campbel, from Belfast, says there was five vessels lost at Scilly in the late gale.' (4)
Source (3) expresses the date of loss as the reporting date of 04-JAN-1788, but an actual date of loss of 24-DEC-1787 (the date of the gale) as given in the accounts of the BETSY and DUKE OF CORNWALL, lost in the same gale, can be inferred.
Master: Best
Date of Loss Qualifier: A |