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Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Random Rants, Notes and Articles No.2 . .

1887 - New York -  May 11 - It is reported that Captain Williams, master of the American ship Occident, bound from Penarth for Acapulco, was murdered by his sailors on March 20th. The ship has been in the command of the mate and the crew of mutineers. - The Daily Morning Astorian [1256] [1240] 12th May 1887.

The Kymin at Penarth is a low-lying piece of shore in a gap of the cliff formed by the small stream which enters the channel where the landing-pier now is.
The Kymin at Penarth is a low-lying piece of shore in a gap of the cliff formed by the small stream which enters the channel where the landing-pier now is. [see map above  [398] surveyed 1878 to 1879, published 1885] Its early form Keymin, 1238, Anal. Tewkes. points to its second syllable being Old Norse minni, "mouth of a stream," which was common in place-names ; compare Armin (Yorks.) at the junction of the Ayre and Ouse.

 

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