Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy

Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; 1793 to 1849

• Shipwreck of the Amphion - 1796 - "The ship, being on the eve of sailing, was crowded with more than an hundred men, women, and children...a violent shock, like an earthquake, was felt...[and] the deck of the hulk...was red with blood"
• Shipwreck of the Tribune - 1797 - "...the 16th of November, 1797...The ship was driving rapidly towards the rocky coast...gave a lurch and went down, rose again for an instant, and with another lurch sank, and all was over...[with] nearly two hundred and fifty human beings struggling with the waves."
• Shipwreck of the Resistance - 1798 - "...in the Straits of Banca, on the 23rd of July, 1798...the ship was struck by lightning...and set fire...[and] she blew up...twelve men alone remained of a crew of above three hundred...but most of the men were so much bruised and burnt...[they constructed a raft but] the lashings of the raft began to give way...[Scott] lost sight of [his] companions on the raft, and never saw them more."
• Shipwreck of the Proserpine - 1799 - "January the 28th, 1799, His Majesty's frigate Proserpine...sailed from Yarmouth to Cuxhaven...At nine o'clock, P.M., the wind [became] a violent gale, accompanied by a heavy fall of snow...[The] tide... brought down such huge masses of ice that the shores were carried away-the copper was torn from the starboard quarter, and the rudder cut in two, the lower part lying on the ice under the counter. [The] snow, falling very thick, was driven against their faces by the wind, and froze upon them as it fell."
• Shipwreck of the Sceptre - 1799 - "High above the crash of timbers and the roaring of the blast, rose the despairing cry of hundreds of human beings who perished in the waters, and whose mutilated forms, with the fragments of the wreck, strewed the beach for miles..."

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