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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The French packet ship Courier du Port Louis, Capt. Tuevache, from L'Orient to New York, wrecked on Long Island's Huntington Sound in a severe storm on January 1. Sixteen perished from cold (2 passengers, 14 crew); others frostbitten. Locals aided survivors; sailors plundered the ship. Few items salvaged.
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The French Packet, Courier du Port Louis, Captain Tuevache, bound for this port from L'Orient, drove ashore on the 1st instant, in the late severe storm, on the back of Long Island, Huntington Sound. Being extreme cold, several of the hands perished, some on ship board and others on shore, before they could reach a house. There were six passengers on board, and thirty eight belonging to the ship. Two of the passengers, and fourteen of the hands perished: all the rest are more or less frostbit. Some of their lives are despaired of. Every possible exertion was made by the people of Long Island, to save the unhappy sufferers: and the greatest humanity shewn them, which redounds much to their praise. The thoughtless sailors, when they found the vessel was stranded, fell a plundering the ship, and broke open the mail, in hopes of finding some money in it, yet even some of the same unfortunate wretches perished with cold before they reached a house. A few packages and trunks are saved out of the wreck. We can give but an imperfect account of the disastrous affair, as the particulars have not yet reached this city with precision.
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Long Island, Huntington Sound
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two of the passengers, and fourteen of the hands perished: all the rest are more or less frostbit. some of their lives are despaired of. a few packages and trunks are saved out of the wreck.
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The French Packet, Courier du Port Louis, Captain Tuevache, bound for this port from L'Orient, drove ashore on the 1st instant, in the late severe storm, on the back of Long Island, Huntington Sound. Being extreme cold, several of the hands perished, some on ship board and others on shore, before they could reach a house. There were six passengers on board, and thirty eight belonging to the ship. Every possible exertion was made by the people of Long Island, to save the unhappy sufferers: and the greatest humanity shewn them, which redounds much to their praise. The thoughtless sailors, when they found the vessel was stranded, fell a plundering the ship, and broke open the mail, in hopes of finding some money in it, yet even some of the same unfortunate wretches perished with cold before they reached a house.