Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Storms and their effects . . .

It was not until an hour afterwards, on the arrival of the 'Black Eagle' steamer (which, in the meantime, had gone to render assistance) that it was ascertained that the crews of both vessels had been saved. With the exception of a boy, belonging to a tug, who was severely cut and bruised whilst being drawn through the breakers, none of the seamen received any injury beyond the buffeting of the waves. When the tide went back the schooner was ascertained to have lost her rudder, and sustained serious injury to her bottom, whilst all that remained of the steam-tug was her engine and boilers, resting upon a portion of her keel. - Monmouthshire Merlin [167] [361] 23rd May 1863.

A more recent view of the probable location of the loss of the 'Spirit of the Tyne' - the beach below the cliffs of the Penarth Head on a flat calm day.