The dreadful sufferings of the crew of the Francis Spaight : bound from Newfoundland to Limerick.
[England? : s.n.,
1836?]
In one column with two illustrations above the title.
Dated from internal evidence - The Limerick shipowner Francis Spaight named at least two ships after himself. The London Times, of June 22, 1836 reported the wreck of the first of these ships, which had taken place on December 3, 1835. A boy named Patrick O'Brien, the ship's cook John Gorman and another boy named George Burns were in turn killed and eaten by their fellow survivors before they were rescued by a passing American ship, the Agenoria. This incident was retold by Jack London as a short story, entitled The "Francis Spaight" (A true tale retold), written in 1908.
First line reads: Ye landsmen all, on you I call, and gallant seamen too.
Ballads, English
Shipwrecks
Cannibalism
Shipwreck survival