The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-05 00:00:00

THEIATAL BOAT ACCIDINT

Au laqueet mu held =Nee the borough entenellir
Liveigool co Meader oe the body of Edward Bede, use
el the uellorteeete men who lost their lives by the host sad-
dest se the Money cm Friday
Wnenee deparsd—ste=rlgger, and wide in
Wealldd-atreet. ma dermal, whose woe wee librard
Bat*, masa alcar.&agar. He was 66 pure old. Be and
were well • we hail hem vorklag together tor
PM& sitarelug the deemed_ , I, eed tee other
tesod led, IMO ever te the Birheeheed Dere to the
l 'read Trhooe. We left the Mamba& Doak shoat cam
• Mule Indere high mow. We took the ship abreast of
Rock Parry, la the doer, old erre to ea eastar. Betveen
three and four o'clock =loathe ship in T hove. Mackay's boat.
He had been in attendance on the ship all day. Tne wind
was about santh-west, blowing fresh, and the ride about an
hour or an boar and a halt's ebb. The boat came to the
port aide of the ship, and I think about 30 men got into her.
Boise of the seen complained there were too many on board.
I heard Thom.. Mackey, the owner of the boat, lay, " Bhe
will tarry 30 men." She is certainly •dm beat: there is
so mistake about that. We were making for the Cockle
Hole, between the Breassick Dock and the Coburg Dock.
Shie went along very Maly wahl we got on the edge of
Plockington Bank, where there is always a ripple of a sea at
that state of the wind and tide. When we got there the boat
shipped three sees right in over her bow, 81te filled with
water, and sank right under us. We all jumped out of the
' boat into the water. I was picked up by a boat that put off
to our aseintattoe. The captain of the Grand Trianon, who
was on the boat with us, wsa picked up by the same bait I
was. I did not see the deceeeed again caul I saw and recog-
nised hint lying deed in hie own house in 10 Court, Grafton-
sweet, ott Saturday. The heat wa• under her foresail. There
wee no one pulling et the an, became we had a fair wind.
The back set of the river hem the Brunswick Dock wall
made a heed Oen as we got on to the =pot the Plueldagtca
Bank. _

ThThe Coroner (to Willisins)—How many do you glint it
ern prudent to hen to the boot ? The own., says she
would carry as many as were in ; what is your opinion?
Williams—She would carry thirty well enough in smooth
water.

Thin was no daager till you came to Plnthieston Bank ?
—No; her, wee no danger till we got there, where there is
always a ripple of • sea.
I have hoard that if yen bad all remained still all would
have been sail 7—There was not a single man moved.
Do you consider that the captain (of the Grand Trianon)
was at all to blame in the matter ? Had he any control at
all? Could you have remained or go, as you char, or were
you under his cmtrol ?—lis wart so more thou than say of
ourselves. We could do what we pleased.
Itioirrd Hiller, a shipwright, living at 67, Hill-streat, who
withered the accident whilst etaadins au the Coburg Dock
pier, deposed that the rebound of the water from the wall
drove it over the boat, and she went floating down the river.
The boat appeared to have been skiltally handled. Hoarier.]
in saving one man with a life-buoy.
Edward Valley, police.ofilow 431, deposed to finding the
body of the decreed shout hell-par ght o'clock, on the
rads of Pluokington Bank, when It had beau left high and
dry by the tide
A verdict d " Accidental death" was returned.