LONDON NEWSPAPER REPORTS DEBRAAK LOST 1798
CAPE HENLOPEN HISTORY
1798
DE BRAAK HISTORY
The Monday, July 2, 1798, London England Evening Mail newspaper reported that Mr. Vincent Low who arrived in London from Cape Henlopen yesterday afternoon brought news of the loss of the Britannic Majesty's sloop of war, De Braak, Captain Drew, master, which overset in Old Kiln Roads about 4 o'clock, afternoon Friday last, in fine seas t the time, under mainsail, and, reefed topsails, about to drop anchor, her boat at her side, waiting for the Captain, who intended to go ashore at Lewes Town when a sudden slew of wind laid her down on her beam ends, filled with sea, and went down with Drew, and the ship's company, except for the boatswain and 25 others who escaped in the lifeboat.
The DeBraak had left the fleet off the Western Islands for some strange reason and had been unable to rejoin the convoy. De Braak's crew of 85 persons in all, half of them survived included those aboard a prize ship she had taken, leaving the Prize Master, a midshipman, and boatswain.
Captain Drew's lady was in New York where she was every hour in anxious expectation of the happiness of meeting him.
The 'prize' lies at the cape's fort.
Abstract: London England's, Evening Mail, Monday, July 2, 1782, courtesy of
Terry Hansen of Facebook .
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