TROOPSHIP BIRKENHEAD
— , — .*. DEATH OF THE LAST SURVIVOR. <By Telegraph.— tress Association.— Copyright A LONDON, 19th May. The death is announced of Captain G. Lucas, 'the last survivor of the wreck of the ill-fated troopship Birkenhead. [The troopship Birkenhead, an iron paddle-wheel vessel of 556 h.p., sailed from Queenstown, Ireland, for the Cape of Good Hope on 7th January, 1852, having on board detachments of the 12th Lancers, the 2nd, Bth, 12th, 43id, 45th, and 60th Rifles, and the 73rd, 14th, and 91st Regiments. On the 26th February the ship struck upon a pointed pinnacle rock ofl Simon's Bay, South Africa, and of 638 persons on board, only 184 were saved by the boats; 454 of the crew and soldiers peiished. When the vessel struck the troops formed at the word of coihmand and went down at their posts, having put the women and children in the boats.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 118, 20 May 1914, Page 7
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