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

Above - A colourised scan of the page from the Graphic magazine article chronicling the storm and its effects of 1881 which includes this lithographic impressions of the vessels 'Restless', 'Parkside' and the 'Jeanne Marie' aground on Penarth beach viewed in the direction of Penarth Head. [000] [243]

No more wrecks were observed until the "Sea Cot" was reached, and opposite this lay three vessels of large dimensions, thrown up on the beach in a variety of positions. They were the brigantine 'Restless', hailing from Salcombe, which drove up on Tuesday night ; the 'Parkside', another brigantine, of Dundalk ; and a French brig, the 'Jeanne Marie', Captain Allėe, bound from St. Malo for Cardiff, with pitwood, and now lying moored to a tree in the garden of Sea Cot.

Proceeding still further in the same direction, the first vessel encountered was the splendid new ship we have before mentioned, the 'Buckhurst', laden with a couple of thousand tons of coal, and standing in a more than unusually favourable position, quite vertically on her keel.