Reprinted from the Terra Nova Advocate
11 October 1881
Passengers and Crew Saved
A Random correspondent of the Telegram records the loss of the schooner Llewellyn on the north side of Trinity Bay. It appears that this vessel, which had left St. John’s on the 30th ulto. Struck on Shag Rock, near Ireland’s Eye and in less than ten minutes was under water. The passengers and crew, nine all told, barely escaped with their lives, losing all their property, the night being dark with heavy wind blowing at the time. The Messrs. Cooper at Northwest Arm, by whom the craft was hired, lost all their winter’s supplies. The Rev. Mr. Lumsden, a newly arrived Wesleyan Minister who was a passenger on board lost his entire stock including clothing and some valuable books. After the unfortunate occurrence, the ship wrecked passengers and crew were well cared for by the people of Ireland’s Eye. The schooner was insured, but her owner incurred considerable loss in a large quantity of fishing gear on board at the time.
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Transcribed by Lester Green, April 2017
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