Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers

[Dennis Ahern]

From The Belfast Evening Telegraph, 9 March 1894 -

A STRANGE DERELICT
Advices just to hand state that the Norwegian barque
Elsa Anderson has arrived at Galveston, U.S.A. with the
hull of an English-built brig in tow. The ship seemed to
have burned at sea a half century ago, and the hull
appeared off the Faroe Islands, after a submarine
disturbance. It was covered with sea shells, but the hull
and under decks contained little water. In the captain's
berth was found a leathern bag containing 1,000
guineas, of the year 1809, and jewellery. Three male
skeletons were also found, one of a man nearly seven
feet in height.

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