Fatal Shipwreck in the Bristol Channel Between six and seven o'clock on Sunday morning last, the Joseph Anderson, a brigantine schooner of 135 tons burden, bound from Newport to Bristol, laden with coals, went down on the Culver Sands, about 6 0r 7 miles south of the Steep Holm. The Captain, the mate, and three of the crew perished, the two others were saved. The illfated vessel left Newport on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock and first got on the Culver Sands at ten o'clock the following morning, where, after beating about for a few hours, she foundered.
The names of the deceased are Richard HOLTEN, Captain (who has left a wife and eight children) John TOPE, mate, William SHEPPARD and Francis DRAKE (both of Plymouth), seamen, and a boy, name unknown. Matthew CROKE, a seaman, and Charles SWEET, apprentice, were saved by lashing themselves to a studding sail boom, and the other to a couple of oars. They floated about for some time and were at length picked up by The Ganymede boat, off Weston-Super-Mare.
The Joseph Anderson is a Plymouth vessel, and belonged to the Devon Coal Association. We understand she was not insured.
