SHIPWRECK!
Charles Dickens and the Royal Charter
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In 1859, as autumn turned to winter, a hurricane ravaged Britain's western coast. Of all the ships wrecked that night, the loss of the steam clipper Royal Charter off the little Anglesey village of Moelfre was the most disastrous.
More than four hundred men, women and children - returning home from the goldfields of Australia - were drowned and dashed against the rocks. The novelist Charles Dickens, then at the height of his fame, visited the village to report the tragic aftermath of the wreck to a shocked nation. This is his story |
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Series editor Robert Williams
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Bilingual Welsh and English
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Publisher Magma Books, Anglesey
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Book can be purchased for online catalogue Click Here
Contents Copyright/Cynnwys hawlfraint: Menter Môn, Cyswllt Cyf
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