Vessel drove ashore and lost in wind conditions SSW force 9. (2)

The following is partly illegible owing to the close binding of the original:

'The iron sailing vessel PLASSEY, from Demerara with rum and sugar, for London, having a crew of 60 besides six passengers, run ashore [illegible] yesterday morning between Hythe and [illegible]. The Folkeston [sic] Coastguard, by means of the [rocket?] apparatus, succeeded with considerable difficulty in rescuing the crew, who are Malays and Ben[galis?] The vessel lies in shallow water, and is expected to become a total wreck.' (3)

Built: 1874 (2)
Builder: W Pile and Co. (2)
Construction: poop-deck 48ft.; forecastle 44ft.; 2 decks; 2 bulkheads (2)
Owner: J D Tyser and Co., London (2)
Master: J Kelly (2)
Crew: 50 (2)
Crew Lost: 1 (2)
Passengers: 7 (2)
Passengers Lost: 1 (2)

Date of Loss Qualifier: Actual date of loss

Additional sources cited in Shipwreck Index of the British Isles:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1883 Appx.Pts.I-IV p119
Lloyds Register 1882-3 No.421(P)

<1> United Kingdom shipwreck index, Page Nos. N/a (Bibliographic reference). SKE6340.

<2> Larn, Richard and Bridget, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 2 : Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Sussex, Kent (Mainland), Kent (Downs), Goodwin Sands, Thames (Bibliographic reference). SKE31910.