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

• April 1892 - The Loss of the Tunisie - Awards to the Lundy Lighthouse Keepers - 'On Thursday a meeting at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at John-street, Adelphi, London, Sir Edward Birkbeck, Bart, M.P., in the chair. The thanks of the institution inscribed on vellum were awarded to Mr. J. M. M'Carthy, principal keeper of the lighthouse on Lundy Island, and pecuniary rewards to the assistant lightkeepers and others for their highly praiseworthy services in saving, by means of lines, the crew of 21 men from the steamship 'Tunisie', of Bordeaux, which stranded under a high cliff on the eastern side of the island in a gale and snowstorm on the 19th February.' - The Western Mail [164] [361] 8th April 1892.

• May 1892 - A Batch of Unfortunates - "It is rather singular that several of the vessels which went ashore recently in the Bristol Channel were in Cardiff together last week."

"Indeed! What vessels were they?"

"They were the 'Elsie', 'Peer of the Realm', and 'Tunisie', which got ashore on Lundy, the 'Triumph', which came to grief on the Flat Holm, and the ship 'Drumblair', which got ashore on Sully Island."

"The 'Drumblair' and ' Tunisie' are in dry dock - I suppose?"

"Yes ; but the others I have named came here for cargo. It is expected that another 'lame duck' will be brought up before the end of the month."

"The'Ackworth', you mean?"

"Yes. She is on Lundy now, and Mr. Wailes, the manager of the Mount Stuart Dry Dock, hopes to get her away about the 23rd inst. She had run up on the rocks, and when the tide is in only her nose is out of the water." - Evening Express [135] [361] 9th May 1892.

• June 1892 - Such a Sight was Never Seen - 'Two large sailing vessels have been laid up on the Cardiff West Mud. There is nothing strange about laying-up, nor are they the first vessels to take advantage of a dock which makes no charge, but, nevertheless, they have created a greta deal of astonishment.