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out to sea under treble reefed topsails, fore topmast staysail and double 

 reefed driver. At 4.30 p.m. a sudden shift of wind from SW. with 

 thunder, lightning, and rain, blowing a complete hurricane; carried away- 

 larboard quarter boat, and driver boom, split main topsail and foresail. 

 At 8 p.m. brought ship to under bare poles ; after, moderated and made 

 sail to the best advantage. 



Latitude, 

 Longitude, 



17th May. 



18th May. 



19th May. 



13° 3' N. 



13° 23' N. 



13°. 10' N. 



81° 22' E. 



82° 06' E. 



81° 54' E. 



Barque Tenasserims report. 



Saturday, 15th May, 1841. — First part N. Westerly and NNW. 

 breezes and a confused sea ; midnight blowing hard, veered away chain 

 to 65 fathoms. 



Sunday, 16th May. — From midnight blowing hard with a heavy sea get- 

 ting up, daylight blowing very hard from NNE. with heavy appearance 

 and every indication of an approaching gale. About noon, agreeable to in- 

 structions per signal from the shore, let go the best bower. At 1 p.m. a very 

 heavy sea struck the ship, carried away all the palls of the windlass and 

 the starboard hawsepipe, and parted the larboard lower chain ; finding 

 ourselves in a very critical position with respect to the George the 

 Fourth, Indiaman, thought it most prudent to run to sea. Set the fore- 

 sail, fore-topmast staysail, and close reefed main topsail and trysail, run- 

 ning ESE. At 5 p.m. the gale suddenly abated, and veered round to the 

 S. E., immediately wore ship to the SW., scarcely had we wore round 

 than a tremendous squall from S.E. caught the ship and laid her on 

 her beam ends for a quarter of an hour, split the foresail to ribbands and 

 also the lee clew of the main topsail ; whilst in this position the jolly 

 boat was unhooked by the booms, and fell in the water bow foremost* 

 carrying away the topping lifts and guys ; was unable to recover her, 

 whilst in this state, therefore cut away the stern falls. About 6h. 30m. 

 a tremendous sea struck us on the larboard quarter, capsized and broke 

 the companion hatch ; put the chronometer for safety down below ; tre- 

 mendous hard squalls from the southward; running east under bare poles, 

 the main trysail being split ; observed, running apparently before the 



