FISHEHY OF DAVIS' STUAITS. S85 



Jiiied twelve hours, after which the wind abated 5 

 but suddenly veering to the Tv. W. a tremendous 

 stonn arose, which, accompanied with sleet or snow, 

 continued without intermission during twenty hours. 

 Before dark of the 15th (nautical day), Captain 

 Bennet saw several ice-bergs, at which time he be- 

 lieved the Royalist was lying to windward of an 

 extensive chain of these islands of ice, among which 

 she was wTecked in the course of the same night. 

 The unfortunate ctew probably perished immediate- 

 ly, as the sea was uncommonly high. 



A subscription w^as opened at Hull by the own- 

 ers of the whalers, which met w4th liberal support 

 from the humane of other classes of people, both in 

 this and in neighbouring tovms. The sum raised 

 amounted to 1122/. 13^. 6d., which was divided in 

 the following manner. To the captain's widow, 

 216/. 11^. 3d. ; to the widow of the chief mate, 51/. 

 19s. 6 d.; and to the widows and families of the 

 rest of the crew certain monthly shares, proportion- 

 ate to the number and age of their children, until 

 the whole was expended. 



The London was lost about the same situation in 

 the year 1817. A subscription, amounting to 

 530/. lls.y raised chiefly by the people of Hull, was 

 divided among the widows and families of the crew 

 in the manner following. To the widow of the cap- 

 tain, 42/.; three shares ^cr month, of 7*. each, to 

 every other widow; and one sliare |;(7r month to 



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