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AFFECTING NARRATIVE OF THE

LOSS

OF THE

THAMES SMACK,

CAPTAIN CRAIGGY,

Which, through a fatal Mistake, was run on the Nore Sand,
Tuesday, February 8, 1809,

INCLUDING THE

Escape of the Captain and Crew in the Boat,

AND THE

PERILOUS SITUATION

OF

FOUR FEMALE PASSENGERS, CAPTAIN JOHNSON,

AND A

PRIVATE SOLDIER,

Who were inhumanly left behind ;

MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION OF THE MEN,

AND

LOSS OF THE WOMEN.

ALSO THE

SUFFERINGS

OF

ALEXANDER SELKIRK,
Who was left on a desolate Island,
On which the Story of ROBINSON CRUSOE is founded.

LONDON:

Printed for THOMAS TEGG, 111, Cheapside.

PRICE ONLY SIXPENCE.

AFFECTING NARRATIVE

OF THE

LOSS

OF THE

THAMES SMACK,

CAPTAIN CRAIGGY,

Which run on the Nore Sand, the 8th of February, 1809.

As

an early account of the recent and calamitous wreck of the Thames Smack, which is not at present generally known, must be highly acceptable to the curious, we have endeavoured to procure the most authentic and satisfactory intelligence, which we shall now lay before our readers.

The Thames Smack, Captain Craiggy from Dundee, had the misfortune, on Tuesday, the 8th of February, 1809, about nine o'clock at night, to run on the Nore Sand, which the Captain mistook for the Middle Sand. She had on board a young lady, the daughter of a naval officer, going on a visit to her friends, three females, and one male domestic belonging to Lord Keith's establishment, and Captain James Johnson of Arbooth, with another passenger or two.

Immediately on the ship striking, Captain Johnson, without any hesitation, represented to Captain Craiggy that they were unluckily on the Nore Sand, and not the Middle Sand, as he supposed, and that their situation was extremely critical. The Captain of the smack, however, maintained a different opinion, and said that on the flowing of the tide, it would be seen that