Part of the
Acorn Archive
Hearts of Oak
SS Amazon
Destruction of
the Steamship by Fire with Great Loss of Life
Passengers
& Crew Announcement
Her Majesty's Consul at Brest, 5th January 1852
[Reported in The Times 10th January 1852]
Ship's company
and Passengers picked up
by Dutch galliot
GERTRUIDA (Captain Teinteleer)
In two of the Amazon’s
ship's boats.
One
Eleanor Roper Maclenan and child, passengers;
Frederick Glennie, passenger;
Bernardo Barricon, passenger;
Jacob Allen, foreman at Messrs Seawall's; [not on the original feared lost list]
John Lamont, fireman;
William Stone, fireman/engineer;
William Goodman, fireman;
Henry Carter, fireman;
Charles Laing, fireman;
George Harding, fireman;
George Tucker, fireman;
John Rogers, seaman;
James Berryman, seaman; [not
on the original feared lost list]
Frederick Wall (Wade?), sailor boy;
Michael Gould, second steward.
Two
Anna Maria Smith, passenger;
William Evans, passenger;
John Stryburn, passenger;
George Deal, quartermaster;
Alexander Laing, quartermaster; [given as King on the feared lost list]
Daniel Brown, seaman;
Joseph Welsman, seaman;
Thomas Attwood, fireman.
William Lucas - fireman
Charles Laney – fireman. [not
on the original feared lost list]
Passenger & Crew Announcement
Plymouth 16th January 1852
[Reported in The Times 17th
January 1852]
Picked up from the
Amazon’s port lifeboat
by Dutch galliot
HELLESCHINA (Captain Gruppelaar)
Landed at
Plymouth.
Lieutenant Grylls RN;
Rev W Blood, passenger;
Mr W Kilkelly,passenger;
Senhor Juan de Cima,passenger;
William Angus, second engineer;
Isaac Roberts, boiler maker;
Angus M'Innes, engineer's storkeeper;
Michael Fox, fireman;
George Webb, able seaman;
Henry Wright, seaman;
Charles Dewdney, stoker;
William Wall, stoker;
Richard Harris, doctor's boy.
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