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The volume compiles contemporary reports, eyewitness testimony, press coverage, and official proceedings about the loss of a homeward-bound steamship that foundered off the Welsh coast after a violent storm. It reconstructs the vessel's final voyage and struggle with the elements, describes the hull breaking near shore and the large loss of life, and gathers newspaper articles, passenger lists, expert commentary, and adjourned inquest testimony culminating in the coroner's verdict, supplemented by addenda and later details drawn from primary sources.

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Title: The Wreck of the "Royal Charter"

Author: Frank Fowler

Release date: November 27, 2018 [eBook #58364]

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the National Library of Australia (https://www.nla.gov.au)

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THE
WRECK
OF THE
“ROYAL CHARTER.”

COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES, WITH
SOME ORIGINAL MATTER.

BY
FRANK FOWLER,
LATE OF HER MAJESTY’S CIVIL SERVICE, NEW SOUTH WALES.
AUTHOR OF “SOUTHERN LIGHTS AND SHADOWS,” “DOTTINGS OF A LOUNGER,” ETC.

LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, SON, AND CO., 47 LUDGATE HILL.
1859.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.

CONTENTS.

  PAGE
NOTE INTRODUCTORY 3
THE WRECK OF THE “ROYAL CHARTER” 5
THE PRESS ON THE CATASTROPHE 43
ADDENDA 58
LIST OF STEERAGE PASSENGERS 58
DR. SCORESBY ON THE ‘ROYAL CHARTER’ 59
THE REV. CHARLES VERE HODGE 64
THE ADJOURNED INQUEST 65
THE VERDICT 78
LATEST DETAILS FROM MOLFRA 78
POSTSCRIPT 80