Sloop Sally of Pwllheli
Voyage Caernarfon to Fflint with slates and 4 passengers.
Driven ashore at Dawpool, 5 March 1822.
Captain Lewis Evans, 2 crew and one passenger survived, 3
passengers drowned.
From Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 19 March 1822
Shipwreck. Coroner's Inquest: On Thursday week, an inquest
was held by
Joseph Grace, Esq. Coroner of the city and county of Chester, on the
bodies of Mr. William Twemlow, (son of Mr. Twemlow, Surgeon, of
Northwich) and a female and her child. The Jury met in the parish of
Thurstaston, and the principal evidence was that of Lewis Evans, who
deposed that he was the Captain of the Sally sloop, of Pwllheli; that
he, and those on whom the inquest was held, left Carnarvon, in the
sloop, on Monday night; it was laden with slates, and the crew
consisted of himself and two men. They were bound for Flint; but about
noon on Tuesday, a storm came on, when he ran the vessel into the Dee,
and, the hurricane increasing, he cast anchor in Dawpool. About six
o'clock in the evening, he parted with his cable, the wind continued
to increase, his sails were blown to rags, and ultimately the sloop
was driven on shore near Dawpool where she went pieces about ten
o'clock at night. Mr. Twemlow, the female, and the child were
drowned; but he and the two sailors, and Williams, another passenger,
saved their lives by getting into the rigging. The verdict of the Jury
was, that the parties deceased were drowned by accident - [The female
was young and handsome, and, we understand, was drowned in the cabin;
the body of the child floated to Heswall, where it was buried. Mr.
Twemlow was a young man of great professional promise, respected by all
who knew him.
[from Chester Chronicle - Friday 20 January 1843]:
Wrecks on the Dee. On Friday night last, during the severe gale, the
Primrose flat, belonging to Mr. Bate of Kelsterton, Flint, laden with
soap waste, was totally wrecked off Gayton, near Parkgate. Wm.
Harding, Thomas Bennett and James Bennett, seamen on board of her,
were drowned. Harding and Thomas Bennett were found lashed to the
rigging and the other body was found in the stern. An account of the
inquest will be found in another part of our paper. The Dee, a vessel
belonging to Mr. Roskell of Flint, was also lost in the same night,
and all hands, four in number, lost. The body of one has only been
found, that of John Hughes. A vessel, name unknown, was also wrecked
near West Hoyle, under Gronant; two bodies have been washed ashore.
[from Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser - Tuesday 24 January 1843]:
The 13th of January, the Dee, of Flint, John Porter, master, bound from
Liverpool to Flint, laden with salt, was cast on shore on Cauldy Beach, near Pan
Gale [sic: Parkgate], and the master, John Porter, his wife, Elizabeth Porter,
their son, Jonathan Porter, and seaman, Hugh Stowell, were all
drowned.
[from Chester Courant - Tuesday 24 January 1843]:
Inquests... One on view of the body of John Hughes, found drowned in the river Dee,
he belonged to the Dee, a vessel of Mr Roskell's, of Flint, which was lost on Friday night.