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Smuggling, shipwrecks and port news from Bristol and Dover
Smuggling crimes, drownings, and salvage reports dominate the Bristol and seaside notes. A smuggling cutter foundered near Felixstowe with two drowned. Genoa anchors recovered and claimed. Port news from Falmouth, Plymouth, Deal, Gravesend, and London lists arriving ships, cargoes, and naval movements, with multiple shipwrecks and near disasters offshore. Obituaries mark merchants and sailors. inland notices mention chaplaincies and coach innovations and a new four-wheel carriage model.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felixton
Geneva
Custom House
Woodbridge
Bristol
Redandcourt
Jeremiah Innys
Hindon
Wilts
John Tyler
Cutler
Port News
Falmouth
Dunn
Richard
Ann
Fowler
Embden
Edgar
Poole
Prosperous
Wills
Guernsey
Mary
Elizabeth
Belt
Earn
Lee
London
Walls
Turkey
Deal
Downs
Gravesend
Fame
Randall
Hazard
Panton
Jane
Coulston
Albion
Trenton
Polly
Watson
Dee
Debby
Richardson
Muckney
Sophia
Burn
Wolf
Kemp
Hawke
Patterson
Prospect
Stranick
Tryal
Molman
Peggy
Sophia Cecilia
Neptune
Barker
Admiral Bairrain
Fell
Petersburgh
Goldsberg
Chumley
Gortenburgh
Alva
Dotherick
Dantzick
Bulitrode
Bucks
Privy Garden
Winnehall
Boscawen
Ireland
Portsmoor
Phenix
Spithead
Fimiths
Gartison
Tilbury
Manwaiting
Dutton
Rice
China
Anamboe
Liverpool
Holland
Richmond
Sawney
Owen
Dolphin
Johnson
Charlotte
Anyon
Otter
Samuel Linnekar
Callabar
Cumming
Gibson
Callam Tower
Freerton
Dublin
Chester
Seares
Holyhead
The
Good Hope
Redder
Koningsburgh
Wifbich
Jutland
Jacob Sperwin
Exeter
Piebe Oeckles Thes Dantzick
Bourdeaux
Warden
Juteland