Dreadful Shipwreck.
The Times, 1824-02-16T00:00:00

On Thursday night, the 5th instant, the brig John, of Cork, Captain _, bound fromn Cork to Liverpool, laden with provi- sions, the wind being Nl.N.WV., blowing hard, attempted to take shelter iU llolyhesd harbour, and succeeded in getting pretty close to the pier.head, but the storm increasing, her chain cable snapped in two. Another anchor WaS thrown out, hut to no purpose, she drifted away (the wind then at eight o'dock beig increased to a com- plete hurricane), and struck on the rocks under the Penrhos domain, the seat of Sir J. T. Stanley, Bart. A number of Dersons had col- lected to the spot by the time she struck, in the hopes of rendering assistance, amongst whom were Captain Hugh Evans, the Harbour las,ter, and Mr. Sparrow, waith his brother officers of Customs, who got on the rocks so near as distincty to hear the piercing screams of wromen, an.d children, and mflen, in piercing agony calling out for help, *-&ve, oh! save us." The men were directed to cut down the mainmast, which it was calculated would reach the rocks we were upon; but to our great grief we heard they had no axe, nor any thin. to cut it down with. whe wind hlowing over the wreck, rendered It impossible for us to throw them ay tning. The screams of tie wo- men and children now became greater, but soon died away. The mien on board were now desired to throw a line towards the rock, and a man having a rope round his middle, went from the rocks in. to the breakers to attempt to catch it, but tried in vain. W'e were now compelled to quit our station,as we were completely surrounded by the flowing tide, and our anxiety of mind prerented our noticing our danger, -and two men very narrovwly escaped being carried ofi'by a great wave which went completely over us, but we held one by the other. The poor crew now seemed distracted, as all was ap- parently over. One nman now appeared undressed, and was seen to throw himself over, but sunk to rise no mere. The tide having now raised the vessel, and a part of her cargo floating about, she came much nearer to another great rock we got upon, when, after a number of unsuccessful attempts, at Last with great danger we succeeded in catching their line, to which they fastened a rope, whicb we drew on shore. Directions being given them to have their rope in readiness, they were to tie a man around his middle, and we to drag him ashore, bat they were so distracted, that the rope got entangled, and they could let out no more. 1Ir. Simp. son, the agent at Penrhos, on this sent up to the house for ropes and while we were tying them together, we saw one man setting off alone the rope, holding fast by his legs tmd arms, and so moving slowly on, and to the surprise of all, who kept encouraging him to hold fast and he would be sa ied, did arrive safe on shore. Another followed his e;ample, and also got safe, butno more durstundertake the dangerous attempt. By this time we had got our ropes ready, and by giving proper directions a third was tied to the rope, who called out " pull away," and iie was safely drag,zed through the heavy breakers on shore. A fourth immediately Iollowei him. A fifth was now fast, and only left the vessel, when we perceived a sixth close behind, which two, as thev (through mnore ditzcolty then the rent) reached the shore, a dreadful crash ensuedt, which shi- vered the vessel to atoms, and stunned. our ears. Thec six men w ho so narrowly escaped a watery grave were humanely taken to Pen- rhos (the scat of Sir J. Stanley), where every preparation had beesn made for alzleviating their distress an,dby about midnight they seemed tolerably well. They had ieft Cork that morning, with a crew of eight men anti eleven passengers, who consisted of a :ril. Church, half-pay in the army, (this was the person who attempted to get on shore, being an expert swimmer,) a sergeant, twvo ener aP their wives, and five small children, who all (Witl two of the creg , perished. E;leven of the bodiaes have sin:ce beten found..-Ckcsi6f Chronzicle. DREAdFUL SHIP WRECK.