The Mammoth Book of Predators by Alex MacCormick

Author:Alex MacCormick [MacCormick, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Educational, Natural History, Nature, Non-Fiction, Predators, Science
ISBN: 9781472118691
Google: lFCeBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B01K0Q4CWU
Publisher: Robinson
Published: 1714-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

2 January 1875

The special train which left Plymouth . . . with the survivors from the Cospatrick . . . was met at Paddington Station, London, by Mr Petherbridge, an agent of the owners, who took charge of the men.

Charles Henry Macdonald, the second mate, is a tall and spare young man of dark complexion. His home is in Montrose, Scotland, and then his wife is to come to London at the owners’ expense. He had a letter from her this afternoon.

Thomas Lewis, able seaman, is of middle height, a strong but weather-beaten man of forty-six. He is by birth a Welshman, of Anglesey, and his friends do not appear to have heard of his danger or of his wonderful escape, for they have not yet communicated with the owners. His sister is Catherine Williams, living in a little village called Bordone, or by some such name, and close to Bangor, on the Menai Strait. The others call him the “old man” and, because of his long service among Flemings [Belgians], “the foreigner”. Such as he was, the mate called him his “right-hand man in the boat”. Cotter said he was their salvation. He prevented Cotter and the mate from going to sleep and dying as others did in their sleep.

After the Welshman and the Scotsman comes Edward Cotter, ordinary seaman, an intelligent lad of eighteen, fair and thick set, born in London, but of Irish parents. To him in the afternoon came up a messenger from his mother, who was ill in bed, had heard of the loss of the Cospatrick and would not believe her son was saved till she saw him. The messenger was his elder brother, a labourer, and when the two young labouring men met after such an eventful separation they first grasped hands and then kissed each other on the lips . . .

Subsequent lengthy reports in The Times and elsewhere covered in detail the official investigation into the possible causes of the fire, its effects, the behaviour of the crew and why the lifeboats were ill equipped. Every aspect of the sinking and its aftermath was pored over – but, perhaps not surprisingly, there was no further mention of cannibalism.

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