Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter V Think you now.behold Upon the hempen tackle ship-boya climbing, Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give To sounds confused. Behold the threading sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottom through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge.--Shakspbbe. shipwrecks.--fox man-of-war. pallas and nymph frigates. john and agnes of newcastle. the czar of leith.--disasters of A night. smugglers, etc. The rock-girt coast of Dunbar has been the theatre of many shipwrecks, and the sands of Tyne the grave of many a gallant vessel. Our limits, however, will only allow us to notice a few of the most remarkable. In a strong gale from the north-east, during the night of the 14th November, 1746, the Fox man-ofwar, Captain Beaver, commander, was cast away near Dunbar, and all on board perished. At the same time, the Trial sloopof-war was lost at Holy Island, and one of the custom-house yachts. The last time the Fox was discovered was to the eastward of the island of May. It is supposed that she struck upon some of the half-ebb rocks near the castle, and lost her bottom, and that the wreck afterwards drifted to Tyne Sands, where she was swallowed up in the Horner's-hole, about one mile east from Tynewater mouth, part of her rigging having at times been seen there. Most of the corpses were found at the back of the castle, and o
