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Transcribed by Caryl Williams
Liverpool Mercury Friday October the 8th 1819
It is with deep regret that we have to announce the loss of the 'Tiger' of this port, from Barbadoes, on the coast of Wexford, on Thursday last, with nearly the whole of her crew and passengers consisting of about thirty persons.
The following letter, containing the particulars of this melancholy event, was received here on Sunday last: it is addressed to Jno CONWAY Esq Secretary of the Underwriters in Liverpool:-
Wexford, 30th Sept 1819
SIR- We regret to inform you, for the information of the underwriters, that this morning, the Tiger, of Liverpool, Smith from Barbadoes to Liverpool, laden with sugar and cotton, struck on a shoal or rock off the Saltee Islands, which caused her to make so much water that she went down immediately: it is supposed about a mile from the town of Tacumshaw.
The crew and passengers, consisting of about thirty, with the exception of four whose names we subjoin, were all lost.
Three bales of cotton, together with a small part of the wreck, have been driven on shore: and as there has not been any person saved from the wreck authorised to put us in charge of whatever might be saved, the collector of this port has given us his sanction: we shall therefore thank you to request the rooms to do the same
We remain &c
HUGHES AND BARRY Agents
Names of persons saved:
John TAYLOR
Charles LUCY
Charles HANNING
John MATHER
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