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2 unusual facts about Sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales


Sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales

"The bay of Dublin has perhaps been more fatal to seamen and ships than any in the world, for a ship once caught in it in a gale of wind from ENE to SSE must ride it out at anchors or go on shore, and from the nature of that shore the whole of the crews almost invariably have perished." – Captain Charles Malcolm of George IV's royal yacht.

The next day she had progressed only to a point opposite Bray Head, a matter of a few miles.



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