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Neptune Brigantine Disaster and Local Notices
The Neptune Brigantine under Capt William Franks bound for Hamburgh struck Dover Pier as tides fell. Rescue efforts failed. cargo possibly saved. Also notices of marriages in Manchester and Jamaica, deaths, drownings, and muttered shipboard accounts. Admiralty report lists saved from the Tilbury wreck and a long bankrupts list including Liddall Atkinson Shewell Masterman Levy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neptune
William Franks
Nfeil Britto
Hamburgh
Sears &c
Dover
Miner and Company
Charles White
Manchester
Miss Bradshaw
John Bradshaw
Chitke
William Innés
Miss Ruffel
James Ruffel
Jeffery
Squata
Virginia
Harman
Bir
Rotherhith
Dunghiane
Weedon
Register
Admiralty Ofice
Moore
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
Tilbury
Robert Groat
Wicard
Unicorn
Thane
Townsind
Manwaring
Dugdale
Fones
Walker
Smith
Mackintosh
Traffcott
S. Thomas Liddall
Axminster
Devon
Mercer
Cutler and Chapman
Matthew Atkinson
Bradford
York
Chapman
Thomas Shewell
Henry
Masterman
Shot- Lane
City of London
Brewers and Partners
Simpson Levy
St. Michael’s Alley
Cornhill