Lines composed by robert maybee, on the loss of the ship "cospatrick," Which was burnt off the Cape of Good Hope, on the night of November 17th, 1874; when more than 400 Lives were lost.
Penzance.
Saundry, Typ., [s.d., c.1874]
Dimensions 220 x 285 mm.
Single leaf quarto broadside. Printed within decorative black borders. Some spotting and marginal tears/loss.
'Some fatal news, 'tis just arrived,
Alas, it is too true:
The loss of the "Cospatrick,"
And a number of the crew.'
An apparently unrecorded broadside verse on the Cospatrick disaster, by the Scillonian working-class Poet Robert Maybee (1810-1891). The Cospatrick, a three-masted full-rigged Blackwall Frigate, was en route for Auckland New Zealand from Gravesend when it caught fire and sank 400 nautical miles SW of the Cape of Good Hope, with the loss of all but a handful of the 477 souls on board. Of the 433 passengers, the vast majority were assisted emigrants.
£ 500.00
Antiquates Ref: 29404
Alas, it is too true:
The loss of the "Cospatrick,"
And a number of the crew.'
An apparently unrecorded broadside verse on the Cospatrick disaster, by the Scillonian working-class Poet Robert Maybee (1810-1891). The Cospatrick, a three-masted full-rigged Blackwall Frigate, was en route for Auckland New Zealand from Gravesend when it caught fire and sank 400 nautical miles SW of the Cape of Good Hope, with the loss of all but a handful of the 477 souls on board. Of the 433 passengers, the vast majority were assisted emigrants.
