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fhore, and damaged in their bottoms, to places (however 
diftant) for repairing them ; I hope, therefore, they will 
excufe the liberty I have taken in prefenting this to 
them. Should the Society honour me by recording it, 
it will make me the molt ample fatis faction for my 
attention to it, and afford me the greateft pleafure. 
On January the iff, 1779, in a moft dreadful ftorm, 
the York Eafl Indiaman, of eight hundred tons, home- 
ward bound, with a pepper cargo, parted her cables in 
Margate Roads, and was driven on fhore, within one 
hundred feet of the head, and thirty feet of the fide, of 
Margate Pier, then drawing twenty-two feet fix inches 
water, the flow of a good fpring tide being only fourteen 
feet at that place. 
On the 3d of the fame month I went down, as a fliip- 
builder, to aflift as much as lay in my power my worthy 
friend Sir richard hotham, to whom the fhip belonged. 
I found her perfectly upright, and her fhere (or fide ap- 
pearance) the fame as when firfl built, but funk to the 
twelve feet water mark fore and aft in a bed of chalk 
mixed with a ftiff blue clay, exactly the fhape of her 
body below that draft of water; and from the rudder 
being torn from her as fhe ftruck coming on fliore, and 
the violent agitation of the fea after her being there, her 
ftern was fo greatly injured as to admit free accefs thereto, 
which 
