Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-09-03
HALIFAX, ~. S. Augua +.

L0SS " CHt LU1V 41Ou es' : :
On the zad Of June, the Lady hobart
failed from This port for Falmouth. IN
the 10Th faw a large fch'r, under Ffen 1s,,s
colours, Handing towards her being tuii
Of men, capt. Fellows prepared for engag,
ing her; but, on her near approach, ana
receiving hot from the Lady Hobart
fhe truck her colours; ihe was taken
poHeilion Of, and given 10 charge TO
liepts. Little and Hughes, two gentlemen
Of the navy who were pafsngers IN the
Packet, with directions 10 take her 10
Falmouth; fhe was laden with fiji and
iome wine.
On the 18th, at one o'clock, ID the
morning. the weather being hazy, and at
intervals, thick fog, and the fhip go
ing at the rate of feyen miles an hour, The
truck againf an i1land Of ice, with iuch
violence as TO throw fsveral of the crew
out of their hammocks--the helm was i'm
mediately put hard a port, when The truck
a fecond time about the cheftree, and
,hen, fwinging round on her keel, itove
10 the fern poa. and carried away the rud
der. The iaand OF ice appeared 10 bang
quite over the fhip. ard was iuppofed to
De twice the height Of her mat heads
The water roihed in 70 as TO fiji the hold
in a few minutes; the guns were then
thrown overboayd-the anchors cut from
The bows both pumps were manned-
men were fent TO bailing the waterways,
and two fails were got under her bottom
notwithstanding which, in lefs than q
quarter OF an hour, the feslled down TO her
lore chains in the water.
The neceaity of quitting the fhip be
coming quite apparent captain Fellowes,
latter coniulsing captain Thomas of tn
navy, who was a paGenger on board, and
Mr.. Bafgus, the ulaA.r, who were bot6
Of opinion that no time was TO be loh,)
ordered the boats to be hoiacd out. Ii
weight and iize of the mail was luch as
,opreclude the pofibiIity of taking it in
% either of the boats, wi;hou, exclude.
fome of the people, il was therefore jucg
ed prudentto hGl il. The ladies', wh
were pafengers, were then placed in the
boats, and the ref of the pafengers and
crew Immediately followed. Some bread
with a fmall quantity of wine, rum and
water, were taken in the BOATS, with {
| quadrant and compass. Scarcely were
| thefr arrangements made, when The fhif
took heavy lurch TO port, and 70 near
were the boats that they narrowly clraP-
cd being carried down by The water. Lii
tie mere THAI an hour eftaped from ,he
/ lhip's itsiSing till Der laundering.
/ At the time the ship fcundered, capt.
Fellowes supposed her to be in lat. Sc,
I SO, N. long. AZ, 90 w. St. Johns, n.
| Foundland, bearing w. n. distant
| $50 miles. The whole number embarked
| in the boats consisted Of %, and all the
provisions saved from the ship was be
] tween 40 and so lbs. OF biscuit, 2 deml
| Johns Of water, consisting of $ gallons
! each demilohn of rum, and part Of
small barrel of spruce beer, and few
| bottles of wine; and as it was a season
| Of the year when the westerly winds are
most prevalent, it become necessary to
husband this small stock with great econo-
| my.-St. Johns being the nearest land
| they could expect to make.
On the lst July, the boats encounter
cd gale Of wind, parted from each OTHER
and Continued separated two days, and 1t
may be considered an uncommon circum-
STANCE, that after sailing many leagues Oh
the ocean, they again fell in with each
other, and continued together till they
reached Conception Bay Oh the 4th July,
and entered place called Island Cove.
They had been days and 6 nights con-
stantly wet and cold and with no other
subsistence than quarter Of biscuit and
glass OF liquor for "a hours, and during
the whole period they were in the boats