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As reported by the Canadian News and British American
Intelligencer July 9, 1856
The Pallas, Captain Spillane, from Cork Ireland April 28th 1856, to Quebec
Canada
- the survivors as recorded below arrived at Grosse Isle Station aboard the
Schooner Nazaire, Captain Blair, 17th June. Sydney with the 67
survivors, who then proceeded on to Quebec by steamer.
Shipwreck in the Gulf
Intelligence has been received that the ship "Pallas," Capt.
Spillane, bound from Cork to this port Quebec, with emigrant passengers, was
wrecked at St. Paul's Island, and that 82 lives were lost. The "Pallas"
sailed on the 28th April, with 136 steerage passengers, and had a good run to
the entrance of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
On the night of the 30th May, about ten o'clock, during a thick fog, with
moderate breeze, the ship running at the rate of four and a half knots, she
struck on the south side of St. Paul's. The life-boat was got out, and every
soul on board, as well as the baggage, might have been saved, but the passengers
rushed into the boat, and no persuasion could induce any number of them to leave
her. The boat in consequence was stove in, and all on board of it were drowned.
The master and the remainder of the crew and passengers stood by the wreck until
morning, when they were safely conveyed ashore in boats from the Island.
Capt. Spillane crossed to Sydney, and hired the schooner "Nazaire"
to bring up the survivors to Grosse Isle when they were transferred to the
regular steamer, which has since safely arrived in Quebec. Seventy-nine
passengers, and three of the crew-in all eight-two lives were lost. The bodies
of the three seaman and three of the passengers who perished were all that had
been washed ashore while those who were saved remained on the island. We regret
to learn that the poor sufferers by this disaster have lost everything they
possessed. The vessel broke up soon after the Island boats had taken off the
last passengers.
The Quebec papers have received from Mr. A.C. Buchanan, the Chief Emigrant
Agent, the following list of the passengers:--
Saved
Michael Barry and child John; Mary Leahy; Daniel Sullivan; Jerry Sullivan;
John Sullivan; Nelly M'Carty; Mary Ahern; James Leary; Tim Leary; John Murphy;
Mary Sheehan; Michael Crowly; Richard Crowly; Thomas Crowly; Julia Crowly; Mary
Brian; Julia Murphy; Kate Kelly; William Regan; Alfred Browning; Michael
Carroll; Margaret Flaherty; Mary Sullivan; Daniel Murphy; Julia Scanlan; Bridget
Holland; Mary Desmond; Mary Donovan; Mary Regan; Humphrey Leary Ellen Leary;
Eliza Cosgrove; David Manning; Robert Edwards; Joseph Edwards; William Flink;
Denis Cotter; John Flynn; Mary Hurly; Thomas Heffernon, wife and child; Mary
Ryan; Patrick Ryan; Edward Conroy; Jerry King; Thomas Coughlan; John Donovan;
Thomas Monahan; Julia Monahan; Michael Flaherty; Patrick Flaherty; James
Flaherty; John Larkin; Bridget Larkin; Bridget Marony; Mary Marony, - Total 57.
Perished
James Crennen; Ellen Gorman, and her 3 children; Hannah Sullivan; Mary Barry;
Ellen Barry; Johanna Crowly; Patrick Daly; Johanna Leahy, and her child; John
Crowly; Bridget McCarthy; Denis Hayes; Kate Hayes; Mary Casey; Mary Gloster;
Hannah Crowly; Patrick Leary; John Sullivan; Mary Kearney, and 3 children; John
McCarthy; Alicia Hartnet; Denis Foley, and 2 children; Edward Carroll; Daniel
Leary; Tim Leary; Kate Leary; Edward Henessey; Johanna Sheehy, and 2 children;
Charles Foley; Daniel Lynch; Timothy Reardon; James Leary; Ellen Sheehy, and 4
children; Mary Loughnane; Bridget Enright; Johanna Enright; Mary Leary; William
Flanin; Ellen Hurly; Denis Ready; Michael Ready; Mary Molony, and child; Patrick
Moriarty; Julia Keohane; Thomas Ferguson; Thomas Daly; Mary Daly, and child;
John, Kate, and Dora Ryan {all children); Daniel Dineen; Mary Anne Farrell;
Susan Stone, and her 3 children; Martin Gleason; William Richardson; John and
Anne Flaherty; Mary Morony-
Total 79. Of the crew : one seaman, the ships cook, and a boy were drowned.
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