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

but scattered along at the very edge of the Flats, and within speaking distance of the road to the ferry, along which the 'buses pass, there were a number of craft of the same description, which will have to stay there for a much longer time before sufficient water will be obtained to float them.

Among those driven right on to the pitching between Cardiff and the ferry we remarked the 'Miner', Captain Thomas, from Bridgewater (light) to Penarth ; the 'Georgina', Captain Everett, of Gloucester ; the 'Wave', of Gloucester, light ; the 'Dilligence', Captain Legg, of Barnstaple, laden with coal, and on a voyage from Newport to Padstow ; the 'Amazon', of Jersey, light ; the 'Elizabeth' of Bridgewater, light ; and the 'Fanny Jane', Captain Deacon, of Bridgewater, with a cargo of bricks which should have been discharged at Cardiff. The 'Ellen', of Waterford, from Southampton for Cardiff, went on the pitching near the Red House, and the 'Cyril', from Plymouth, with burnt ore, also grounded. The 'Archilles', from Newport to Padstow, sank on the West Mud.

There were a number of smaller craft in a like position. No lives were lost in any of these wrecks. There was on Wednesday a high spring tide of 33ft. 6in., which took these vessels higher than they could usually go ; the next spring tides will commence on February 1, so most of the vessels we have mentioned, which are not too much injured, will have to wait another fortnight before getting off, if they get off at all. The tide will then be at a height of 38ft. 6in.

Proceeding over the ferry and along the side of Penarth Dock, and down to the beach where the ferry boat usually lands her passengers, and then walking on round the Penarth head, our reporter came first across a Cork brig lying in a pitiful position along the shore, from which she is never likely to be rescued - her keel directed towards the cliffs, and upon an assent of pebbles. She is badly damaged.

Not many yards further on there are two French vessels lying close together, as if their kindred nationality had made them companions in misfortune - the full-rigged brig, 'Jeune Emilie', of Belleisle, and the schooner 'St. Anne', hailing from Dieppe.