Loss of the Lady Charlotte Liverpool Mercury November 1838

Melancholy shipwreck – Ten lives lost

The Lady Charlotte, which sailed from Callao Peru on the first of July for Liverpool, with a valuable cargo of wool, hides and specie, was wrecked on Monday morning last, in the channel of Long Island, within the port of Skibbereen, on the west coast of Ireland.

She struck on the rocks, and afterwards sunk in two or three fathoms water.

Captain GILL, the mate, and eight of the crew were drowned; only one man named John WADDINGTON was saved. He clung to the rock for nine hours, and when taken off by the Coast Guard, was nearly insensible

He soon, however, from the humane treatment he received, recovered.

Very little of the cargo had, at the date of the last accounts, been saved