3-021-725 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Vessels ashore in Batten Bay, Plymouth Sound, during the late gale, 1865. 'The storm which raged so furiously along the coasts of the west of England and Wales on Wednesday week and drove many vessels ashore, not only in exposed situations but even in Plymouth Sound, returned with still greater severity to Plymouth on Thursday night, and on Friday along the Cornish coast...Besides the schooner St. Germans, ashore at Queen Anne's Point, there were at the same time ashore in Batten Bay, the French ship Faulista, Captain Loyer, from Havre for Rio; the schooner Victoria, Captain Hammock, of London, for St. John's; two English brigantines; the schooner Apollo, Captain Bryant; the Belgian schooner Espoir, from Rio Grande: the Swedish brig Jules the Second; and the brig Hindoo, of Gothenburg. On the same morning the emigrant-ship Amoor 1344 tons, Captain Fraser (belonging to Mr. Fotheringham) dragged her anchor from the Sound to Deadman's Bay, in Catwater, when she grounded alongside the quay. She was bound to Adelaide, and was ready for sea. Her passengers (435) were all landed, and removed to the depot at Stonehouse. The Amoor ran into and seriously damaged a Guernsey schooner, and several other vessels were damaged in the same way'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.