The toll taken by the sea
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The toll taken by the sea
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff Taken: 1 Mar 2011
Three members of the same family are commemorated on this gravestone in the Tabernacle cemetery. Henry Lewis of the brigantine Gwladys who was drowned in the Bristol Channel in December 1891 (while en route from Cardiff to Messina with a cargo of coal the ship was rammed by a steamer off Hartland Point and went down, 3 of the 7 men were lost); brothers David and Arthur were lost in the South Atlantic in 1907 when en route from Bahia Blanca to Antwerp with a cargo of wheat. Their ship S.S. Dulverton was posted missing, last seen hove to with engine trouble. They were both in their 20s, sons of John and Tamar Lewis of Fishguard.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.992315
Longitude
-4.974164