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Transcribed by Michael Coomber, graciously provided to the Kent OPC for display. Contributors of additional abstracts are noted by their initials placed in square brackets at the end of the source citation.

Last Wednesday in the Afternoon, as Mr. CHAIRE was coming from Woolwich in a Boat; a light Ship falling down the River, run her down and sunk her, by which Accident Mr. CHAIRE and one of the Watermen were drowned; but the other Waterman was saved by a Boat that went to his Assistance from the Ship.

Source: Read's Weekly Journal Or British Gazetteer ( London, England ), Saturday, August 9, 1735; Issue 540.

COUNTRY NEWS -

On Monday Capt. RIDLEY, Commander of the Cholmondeley Cutter, in the Service of the Customs at Dover, made a Seizure of 138 Half-Anchors of Brandy, and 138 Bags, containing 32 C. Weight [hundredweight] of Tea, and two small Boats. The same Day Mr. Young VEEL, Supervisor of the riding Officers at Dover, made a Seizure of 33 Half-Anchors of Brandy.

Source: London Evening Post ( London, England ), April 20, 1738; Issue 1628.

An account of some of the English Prisoners of War in the City of Lugo in Galicia, commencing the 16th November 1739; with Captains and Ships Names they belonged to, the respective places of their abode, and when taken.

In the Wilmington of London,
Anthony BULMORE, Master, taken March 7, 1741,
Stephen UNDERDOWN, Mate of Margate,

( and of other crew from outside Thanet )

In the Prudent Sarah of London,
Nath. WARNER, Master, taken March 14, 1741,
Francis WARMELL of Margate and other crew of London.

[The report does give Francis WARMELL of London, as well as Margate.]

Source: London Evening Post, Thursday, September 17, 1741; Issue 2162.

COUNTRY NEWS - Canterbury, Dec. 5.

Last Friday between Seven and Eight o'clock at Night, a Corn Hoy, which Mr. Daniel SWINFORD, of Margate, had just bought of Capt. JORDEN and Mr. DILNOT of Sandwich, with 150 Quarters of Corn on board, was taken as she lay at Anchor in Ramsgate-Road, by a French Cutter-built Privateer; four Men who were on board had just Time to jump into the Boat on the reverse Side, when the Privateer grappled the Hoy.

Source: London Evening Post, Thursday, December 6, 1744; Issue 2666.

Saturday Morning Mr. ANSELL, Mate of a Vessel outward-bound, lying off the HERMITAGE, going on board the same, fell into the River, and was drowned. His Body was taken up soon after.

Source: London Daily Advertiser, Monday, May 25, 1752; Issue 385.

CANTERBURY, March 14. -

We hear from Margate in the Isle of Thanet, that the Week before last, an Information was sent from thence to the Custom-house, London, against Mr. Edward GOLDSMITH; setting forth, that he had India Goods on board his Hoy: Upon which the said Hoy was met in the River, and boarded by three Officers, on Saturday the third Instant, off Woolwich, who continued on board till all her Lading was out, which was the Wednesday following, when it plainly appeared there was no such Thing, and that the Information was altogether false and malicious.

Source: Public Advertiser ( London, England ), Friday, March 16, 1753; Issue 5735.

Margate, Jan. 31.

Yesterday as Mr. Joseph BRASIER, Corn Hoyman of this Town, was coming from London, his Man, Thomas COOK, was unfortunately struck overboard by the Tiller and was drowned. He has left a Wife and five Children.

Source: Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer, Saturday, February 1, 1755; Issue 1363.

Last Saturday one Robert GAN, belonging to Mr. SWINFORD's hoy of Margate, fell overboard, and was drowned, as the hoy was going down the river. He has left a wife and two small children.

Source: Read's Weekly Journal Or British Gazetteer ( London, England ), Saturday, October 23, 1756; Issue 2385.

Last Friday, in the evening, a passage-boat called the Ostend packet, Capt. Stephen SANDWELL, master, sailed out of Ostend bound to Margate, and about ten o'clock the same night in a gale of wind, was obliged to put back; about eleven o'clock, the gale increasing and a great sea, Capt. SANDWELL was washed overboard and drowned; he has left a wife and six children at Margate. The packet is since arrived safe at Ostend with all the passengers and the rest of the men.

Source: General Evening Post ( London, England ), Saturday, February 15, 1783; Issue 7644.

In the gale of wind on Friday night last, a brig ran aground and sunk near Westgate-bay, between Margate and Birchington; the crew were obliged to make themselves fast to the shrouds, and remained in that situation all night, till the next day at two o'clock, when they were all got on shore, nearly perished - it is thought some of them cannot recover, and that the brig cannot be got off.

Further information in the same Newspaper has an "Extract of a letter from Ramsgate, Nov. 3rd. " saying :-" On Sunday night a boat from Margate went off to the brig that run aground in Westgate Bay on Friday night, in order to bring part of the cargo on shore; the boat sunk on her return, being too deeply laden, by which Thomas SHINGLESTONE, of Margate, and his son, were drowned; the other three men were taken up alive by another boat and brought home safe to shore. The said brig was laden with starch, blue, grocery, etc."

Source: General Evening Post ( London, England ), Tuesday, November 6, 1787; Issue 8420.

RAMSGATE, 19th. June. -

This morning was brought in here, the schooner John, of Hull, laden with pipe clay, supposed from Poole to Hull; she was taken up yesterday morning, off the Gallopper Light, without any person on board. The boat and papers being also gone, leaves us to suppose, she must have been on shore, and being leaky, abandoned by the crew, and afterwards drifted off.

Source: The Hull Packet ( Hull, England ), Tuesday, June 25, 1805; Issue 963.

Some large casks, containing oil and tobacco, were driven on shore at Deal and Dover, on Tuesday and Wednesday last, by the strong easterly gales. They are supposed to have been part of the cargo of the Oaks, West Indiaman, which was lost on Margate Sands, in the night of the 8th November.

Source: Calendonian Mercury ( Edinburgh, Scotland ), Monday, January 8, 1821; Issue 15500.

A gentleman, named OUTRAM, drowned Monday last, near Margate - the boat in which he was fishing upset in a squall, and both he and the waterman drowned.

Source: Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, September 18, 1824; Issue 3725.

The names of Crew Members from KENT who perished on the under-mentioned uninsured Australian Clipper Headed:-

THE WRECK OF THE DUNBAR, AUSTRALIAN CLIPPER, AND LOSS OF ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY LIVES.

The information was gathered from the Sydney Morning Herald of September 10th.

George FISH, 19, butcher's mate, from KENT.
Henry Bevan WILLIAMS, 21, A.B. from KENT.
Charles LUPPEL, 36, A.B. from KENT.
George LEMAR, 34, A.B. from KENT.
John COLSTON, 46, A.B. from KENT.

Source: Daily News ( London, England ), Monday, November 16, 1857; Issue 3589.

On Saturday morning a pleasure boat capsized near the Newgate Coast-guard Station, Margate, and the occupants - two ladies, a Mr. HORN, and the waterman, Charles EMPTAGE - were thrown into the sea. They were fortunately rescued by one of the coastguard boats under the charge of Lieutenant HART.

Source: The Newcastle Courant etc., Friday, May 29, 1868; Issue 10092.

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT

A pleasure-boat containing five persons was missing from Dover on Wednesday evening. The party consisted of two brothers named HOGBEN, of Faversham; Esther COVENEY, of Dover; May LANCY, of Weston-super-Mare; and a boatman named LADD. The young persons were engaged in drapery establishments in the town, and were having a row on the water after business hours, having secured the services of one of the steadiest boatmen on the beach. They were observed from the shore about half past nine, appearing to be coming in, but, on nearing the shore put out again to sea, the young ladies rowing. They were not seen afterwards, and on Thursday the boat, empty, was picked up midway between Dover and Folkestone. The boatman leaves a wife and five children.

The Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle of Saturday, June 19, 1875; issue 4470, also mentions Mr. PHILLPOTT as being with them, and names the girls as Miss COVENEY and Miss SLANEY. That paper also states "Nothing had been heard of them yesterday morning, and at eight o'clock last evening the boat was washed ashore near Shakespeare's Cliff, rudderless and half full of water. The bay has been dragged in every direction but none of the bodies have been recovered."

Source: Trewman's Exeter Flying Post, or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser, Wednesday, June 23, 1875; Issue 5767.

At the Margate Town Hall, Albert EMPTAGE and the crew of the Moss Rose skiff, who rescued the crew of the Druide during the severe gale last November, were presented with medals awarded by the Board of Trade in recognition of their gallantry. The presentation was made by Miss Louise WOOTTON, daughter of the Major.

Source: Birmingham Daily Post, Thursday, February 15, 1894; Issue 11126.

THREE MEN DROWNED AT BROADSTAIRS.

On Saturday morning three Broadstairs boatmen, named John HILLER, Charles BAKER, and Joshua KENNY, put off in a punt to assist a barge into Broadstairs. They had got only a hundred yards out when a huge wave struck and capsized the boat. The Kingsgate surf-boat went out to render assistance, but all the three men had disappeared. Yesterday, morning the bodies of HILLER and BAKER were washed ashore at Kingsgate.

[N.B. From FreeBMD:- Death of John Andrew HILLER aged 54, March Qtr 1887 Thanet 2a 562; Charles Thomas BAKER aged 32 (same reference); Joshua Caleb KENNY aged 23 (same reference).]

Source: Aberdeen Weekly Journal (Aberdeen,Scotland),Monday, February 14, 1887; Issue 9987.

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