CHRONICLE. 



JANUARY. 



■pXTRACT from the Danish 

 -^ newspaper of the 31st of De- 

 cember, 1811 : — 



" We have received accounts 

 that the English ship St. George, 

 98 guns, commanded by admiral 

 Reynolds, and the Defence of 74, 

 capt. David Atkins, were driven 

 ashore on the morning of the 24th 

 instant, near Cape Ryssenstein, in 

 the lordship of Rinkiobing. The 

 crew of the former is said4o have 

 consisted of 350 men, and of the 

 latter, of 550 men, not including 

 the officers. Half an hour after 

 the Defence had touched the 

 ground, the whole went to pieces, 

 and all the crew (excepting 

 fire seamen and one marine, 

 who saved themselves bj' holding 

 pieces of timber) were drowned. 

 Capt. Atkins reached the shore, 

 dead. The day after, in the after- 

 noon, there were seen from the 

 land some part of the cabin and 

 poop of the St. George, upon 

 which were standing many men. 

 Part of the mast was cut away, 

 and some men endeavoured to 

 escape on it ; but it is conjectured, 

 that few have been saved, since the 

 waves and the current, with the 

 wind coming from the N.NW. 

 would sweep them off before they 

 reached the land. Some, likewise, 

 attempted to save themselves on a 



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raft, but are said to have perished ; 

 and when the accounts came away 

 from Lemvig, intelligence had 

 reached that place, that the St. 

 George had totally gone down, and 

 that only twelve men of the crew 

 had been saved. The ship was 

 upwards of 300 fathoms from the 

 land." 



Lemvig, Jan. 6. — There were 

 no more than eleven men saved of 

 the crew of the St. George, as the 

 twelfth died before he could be 

 brought into a house. These sea- 

 men state, that the ship, previous 

 to the loss of her masts, had like- 

 wise had her rudder broken by 

 striking on the Redsand ; and the 

 one which was made on board to 

 replace it, was too weak to steer 

 and govern the ship, in a gale of 

 wind in the North Sea, and which 

 might, probably, cause the ship's 

 stopping. 



The Defence first took the 

 ground ; and on signal being given 

 ijy her of the accident,the St.George 

 immediately let go her anchor, but 

 in bringing up with the anchor she 

 took the ground abaft, so that her 

 forepart, which had deeper water, 

 and was confined down by the ca- 

 ble, was, in a short time, under wa- 

 ter. To save them by boats and craft 

 from the shore was impossible. 

 Such as were hoisted out were im- 

 mediately driven from the ship, 

 with the exception of one single 



B boat. 



