Saturday 20 August 2011

The Rothesay Castle

This report is from a Manchester paper dated 20th of August 1831 :

Wreck of the Rothesay Castle.
The steam packet plying between Liverpool and Bangor. This is the worst calamity since the first introduction of steam navigation.
There were three Rochdale passengers lost; George King brother to James King, manufacturer, William Bottomley and Benjamin Lees.
There were 93 lives lost in total and 23 passengers rescued.

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