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From: "Diana Henry" <>
Subject: MARTIN, MARSHALL
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:56:31 -0000

FROM THE WFP 11th November, 2004
"The way we were"
16th November, 1854 - 150 years ago.
Compiled from the archives by Andrew Hamilton.

"We regret to add another to the list of shipwrecks of vessels belonging to
this district, that of the barque Mary Sharp of Garliestown, Captain William
Martin, the property of Messrs Marshall and Co., Garliestown. The Mary
Sharp, in ballast, was bound for Quebec to take in a cargo of timber, and,
on the morning of Tuesday 10th, when off the coast of Cape Breton,
encountered a severe gale which drove her on a sunken reef off Woody Point
near Main-a-Dieu. She struck at about half past two a.m. and in half an
hour she became a total wreck and went to pieces. The master and six other
hands perished. The remainder of the crew, eight in number, were saved."

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