Mr. Charles McCann, a well-known and respected Newry seaman, was one of eleven men drowned when a ship floundered after striking rocks. The crew numbered forty-nine and eleven men are still missing. The crew took to the boats and twenty-seven succeeded in getting to land.
Maritime History
History of Newry canal and the seas and ports around the area
Shipping Losses
We all recall from our school days, tales of cruel shore people luring ships’ captains unto rocks with bright lights. They were after the spoils of wrecks, and they cared not at all for the watery fate of sailors
Emigrants Lists
The following long lists are reproduced solely for the benefit of any Newry exile in search of the ship on which their forebears left Newry or Warrenpoint in the nineteenth century. The ships’ lists are neither representative nor exhaustive.