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Hearts of Oak
SS Amazon
Destruction of
the Steamship by Fire with Great Loss of Life
Announcement Plymouth - 16th January 1852
We have the gratification to
announce the safety of 13 more
of the sufferers from the ill
fated steam-ship Amazon.
They were picked up from the port lifeboat, in the Bay of
Biscay, on the evening of the conflagration, by the Dutch galliot Hellechina, Captain
Gruppelaar, which vessel yesterday at noon off the Dodnan, passed them on board
the revenue cutter Royal Charlotte, Lieutenant Lilburn, which has, since 12th
inst, been cruising at the entrance to the Channel in the hope of rendering
assistance, by the instructions of Captain Kennedy, Inspector of Coast Guard
for this district.
The names of the persons landed here are
Lieutenant Grylls RN;
The Rev W Blood;
Mr W Kilkelly;
Senhor Juan de Cima;
William Angus, second engineer;
Isaac Roberts, boiler maker;
Angus M'Innes, engineer's storekeeper;
Michael Fox, fireman;
George Webb, able seaman;
Henry Wright, seaman;
Charles Dewdney, stoker;
William Wall, stoker; and
Richard Harris, doctor's boy.
Lieutenant Grylls, on landing, was immediately taken to
the residence of Captain Lilburn, at Buckingham-place, Stonehouse, where he
received a continuation of the hospitality he experienced aboard the cutter.
The Rev W Blood, Mr Kilkelly and Senhor Juan de Cima are
under the care of Mr W E Elliott, of the Royal Hotel, where the last named was
speedily visited by Mr John Luscombe, the Spanish Consul.
The engineers and crew are at the Prince George, in the charge
of the honorary agent of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society, who is efficiently
assisted by Mr Carkeet.
The wounds of Wright, Dewdney and Wall were promptly
dressed by Mr Whipple, surgeon.
Raymond Forward