Scoil: Convent of Mercy, An Pasáiste, Corcaigh

Ar an leathanach seo

1. A Famous Captain from Passage West (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   for some time.

   It set out on the return journey on the first day of May and reached Falmouth on the eighteenth of May. It made it's second journey to America under the command of Captain Stephen Sayer-Mowle, and returned in July 1838.

   After it's second voyage to America, it traded with Great Britain. It was during one of these voyages that the far-famed "Sirius" met it's doom. It was wrecked between three and four o'clock on the morning of the sixteenth of January 1847, off Ballycotton. With Captain Moffett in command it was on a journey between Cork and Glasgow. It struck a rock and Captain Moffett reversed the engines to get it off. He succeeded but it struck another rock named "Smith's Rock." It was plain to be seen that it would not last more than an hour.

   The captain ordered one of the lifeboats to be launched but unfortunately it was launched on the weather-side. Twenty of the passengers crowded into it

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. pearsana stairiúla (~5,068)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Roberts

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   50

   Gairm bheatha

   Domestic worker (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   An Pasáiste, Co. Chorcaí