{"id":12779,"date":"2023-12-24T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=12779"},"modified":"2023-12-24T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T19:24:06","slug":"mfdj-12-24-23-sinking-of-the-royal-adelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=12779","title":{"rendered":"MFDJ 12\/24\/23: Sinking of the Royal Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Lost Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

RMS\u00a0Royal Adelaide<\/i>\u00a0was a paddle\u00a0steamship\u00a0owned and operated by the\u00a0City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. Its principal route ran between\u00a0London\u00a0and\u00a0Cork.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Royal Adelaide<\/i>, captained by John Batty, left Cork fully laden with cargo and about 250 passengers on Wednesday, 27 March 1850, touching off at Plymouth on the Thursday evening. By the time the ship left Plymouth for London at 3.00\u00a0am on Friday, there were almost 300 deck passengers.<\/p>\n

The ship was lost at about 11.00\u00a0pm on Saturday, 30 March 1850 on Tongue Sands north of\u00a0Margate, with the loss of all on board. News only reached London late on Sunday as the\u00a0river pilot waiting for the ship happened to meet a Deal pilot (Charles Gillham) who reported seeing a ship of a similar description in distress the previous evening.<\/p>\n

The dead included more than 150 deck passengers from\u00a0Ireland, during a time when the\u00a0Great Famine\u00a0was at its height.<\/p>\n

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\nWreck of the Royal Adelaide<\/em><\/p>\n

Culled from: <\/span>Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

\nWax Specimen Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

Wax specimen from the book Dermochromes – III<\/em> (1910):<\/p>\n

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Andersonville Prisoner Diary Entry Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

This is the continuation of the 1864 diary of Andersonville prisoner Private George A. Hitchcock (see the\u00a0archived version<\/a>\u00a0for all entries up until now).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s today\u2019s entry:<\/p>\n

September 12th.\u00a0 <\/b>Graton stopped with us last night. Eighteen detachments go out to-day.<\/p>\n

Culled from:\u00a0Andersonville: Giving Up the Ghost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Lost Yet Truly Morbid Fact! RMS\u00a0Royal Adelaide\u00a0was a paddle\u00a0steamship\u00a0owned and operated by the\u00a0City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. Its principal route ran between\u00a0London\u00a0and\u00a0Cork. The\u00a0Royal Adelaide, captained by John Batty, left Cork fully laden with cargo and about 250 passengers on Wednesday, 27 March 1850, touching off at Plymouth on the Thursday evening. By the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12791,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions\/12791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}