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Shipwreck near Mozambique and harsh Atlantic dispatches
Report details a vessel driven to the Portuguese Settlement of Mozambique seeking aid to return home, but storms and shoals named Baffas de India wrecked it. Nine stayed aboard, seven fled in a boat, John Dean survived to reach India, with two dying. Dean expected home aboard the Haeflingfield capt Cooke. The rest notes insurance refusals and various other obituaries and local notices.
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Mozambique
Baffas de India
John Dean
India
Dean
Haeflingfield
Cooke
Cork
Great Britain
Ireland
New Northstreet
Henry Redburn
Clifden-House
Shooman
Prince of Wales
Benjamin Portlock
Clapham
Surrey
Solebury
Layton Buzzard
Bucks
Portlock
Duke of Omond
Smart
Chelsea College
Yesterda
Best
Great St. Hellen’s
Major
Capt. Lownds
Liverpoole
Virginia
Mahone
Hurst
London
Cape’s End
Windia
Jamaica
Bennett
Hampton-Court