DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.

Western Star, Issue 143, 3 June 1876, Page 5

DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.

Details of the shipwreck of the Frederick have come from France. - The vessel struck the rock of Grau Poulet atllp.m. and, although she was hear th&pjhdre,'ther night was so dark and the waves so' high that nothing was seen or heard of the tragical circumstances. * All those ion board took ref uge on the masts, which were the only places out of the reach of the violence of the sea. 'Amongst';them were the captain and his wife, a young'woman of only twenty-one-years: of age, whose infant was torn from her arms by one of the waves which invaded the cabin. Those unfortunate people clung to the rigging for several hours,; until it began,' to give way, and then bach began to thrnk of saving his own lifeby/ a plunge in the sea and an .eif n’ the'.beach. The captain a yoang;anfl;;vigorouft In a n of the same age as his-wife/could probably have succeeded in tliia thaff’tanyof; his seamen, so in the presence of his ill-fateifedhjpanibn, already half-dead from cold and fatigue; and when, a short time after the first-indications of giving way, the maiimiasf and his devoted wife the eyes of the survivors closed in a last embrace. In the. supremo struggle which ensued amongst the crew.to gain.the'laud, only two succeeded. By dint of superhuman efforts they reached the shore In a-miser-able plight. One of them had great difficulty iii obtaiiung sheltej-. ■ 'With his .clothes .in rags . and speaking a .foreign language,-the farmers took .him for an escaped , convict,- but at length allowed him to/ rest in an out-house of one of their farms. Such wore'' the hardships that he endured,.that it is doubtful whether be will survive. The bodies of the captain and Ins* wife and. 'the. .rest of the crew have" been washed ashore. The Frederick' walk not, as was at first supposed, a Norwegian barque, biit belonged to: the port of Hamburg.