Maritime record TR 36 SE 896 - Hetty

`The HETTY, Greg, from Antigua...drove ashore near Ramsgate.' (1)

'Extract of a letter from Deal, December 2. "Yesterday blowed a storm of wind at SW between 2 and 3 o'clock...the HETTY, Gregg, from Antigua; the BLESSING, Wheeler, for Oporto, foundered, and the crews were taken up by the PROVIDENCE."' (3)

NB: Source (2) gives the date of loss as the reporting date of 04-DEC-1747; however, the mention of a storm in the Downs on 01-DEC-1747, heads a list of casualties in the Kent area in source (1), and the date of 01-DEC-1747 is confirmed in source (3).

Source (2) assigns London as the place of destination.

Master: Greg (1)(2): Gregg (3)

Date of Loss Qualifier: Actual date of loss

<1> Lloyd's, 1969, Lloyd's list 1741-1945 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6342.

<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.

<3> 1770, Felix Farley's Bristol Journal (Miscellaneous Material). SKE56007.