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Title: The Wreck on the Andamans

Author: Joseph Darvall

Release Date: March 22, 2009 [EBook #28388]

Language: English

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THE WRECK
ON
THE ANDAMANS:

BEING

A NARRATIVE OF THE VERY REMARKABLE PRESERVATION,
AND ULTIMATE DELIVERANCE, OF THE SOLDIERS
AND SEAMEN, WHO FORMED THE SHIPS' COMPANIES OF
THE RUNNYMEDE AND BRITON TROOP-SHIPS, BOTH
WRECKED ON THE MORNING OF THE 12TH OF NOVEMBER,
1844, UPON ONE OF THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS, IN
THE BAY OF BENGAL.

_TAKEN FROM AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS_

BY

JOSEPH DARVALL, Esq.

_At the request of_
CAPT. CHARLES INGRAM, AND CAPT. HENRY JOHN HALL,
_Owners of the Runnymede._

"The dangers of the sea,
All the cares and all the fears,
When the stormy winds do blow."

(_Song._)

LONDON: PELHAM RICHARDSON, 23, CORNHILL.
1845.

PELHAM RICHARDSON, PRINTER, 23, CORNHILL.

PREFACE.

The Author, owing to circumstances, has had access to authentic
documents and facts, relating to one of the most remarkable shipwrecks
which have ever happened, that of the troop-ships Runnymede and
Briton, on the morning of the 12th of November, 1844, upon one of the
Andaman Islands.

In reading these, it struck him forcibly, that the circumstances, if
thrown into the shape of a narrative, would form not only an
interesting publication, but would serve as a monument of the cool
intrepidity and judicious presence of mind of British officers,
soldiers, and seamen, in a time of remarkable trial.

They also tend to illustrate in a very striking manner the