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Key Information
- Title:
- Arrival Of The Swan From Davis' Straits
- Object Name:
- newspaper
- Date/Period:
- 04/07/1837
- Location on Display:
- Museum - Not Currently on display
- Accession No:
- KINCM:2005.3947
- Other Numbers:
- W3.106.76
- Brief Description:
- Broadside entitled 'Arrival Of The Swan From Davis' Straits, 25 Lives Lost'. It relates the return to Hull the previous day of the whaling ship 'Swan' which had been beset in the ice and presumed lost. It reports that 'many thousands assembled at Southend' to get a first glimpse of the ship and cheered her into the Old Dock. Captain Dring and his two sons are reported to be in 'tolerable health' but 'no words can well describe the privations and sufferings to which the men have been exposed' and the article lists the names of the lost. A paragraph at the bottom states that the wife of one of the crew members, having assumed he would never return, had married another the previous week. On hearing of the ship's return 'she made a precipitate retreat into the country, where for aught we know, she yet remains'. A woodcut image of a sailor returning home appears at the top. The sheet was printed by Weston Howe, 'Printer and Bookbinder', 33 Lowgate, Hull. It has been mounted on cardboard.
Dimensions:
| Type | Height | Width | Depth | Diameter | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 385[mm] | 195[mm] |
