3rd February 1884
A sailing boats sinks on its way to Jersey
The Dewdrop, a brig with two large, square-rigged masts, was badly damaged while sailing from Turk’s Island to Jersey on 3 February 1884. Her masts snapped, she sprang a leak and sank.
Fortunately for the crew, they were rescued by a passing Norwegian schooner, the Sirglinn, which was travelling from Trinidad to London, although there was some confusion in the newspapers of the time over whether they were eventually landed in Liverpool or Gravesend on 27 February.
Either way, they made it back to the mainland, and the following year, the Sirglinn’s captain, Soren Carlsen of Christiana, was awarded a telescope by the Board of Trade for his kindness and humanity.
Turk’s Island is now part of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the northern West Indies.
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Gerald Durrell marries the woman who will help him found his zoo
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Jersey’s wrists are slapped by the Home Office
- Jersey refused to pay for a census to be carried out when it felt that the only benefit would be to the mainland.
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The government of Jersey is unveiled
- The council of ministers adopted the ‘Government of Jersey’ as the island government’s official identity at home and abroad.
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