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Ports, Past and PresentHeddiw ar gyfer ein stori #Gwener, mae @CathrynPearce o Brifysgol Portsmouth yn archwilio hanes cyfryngau cymhleth drylliad y Royal Charter ym 1859 mewn corwynt a gaeth ei enwi ar ôl y llong: https://portspastpresent.eu/items/show/722 #EUIrelandWales #Corwynt # Cymru #RoyalCharter @wales @heritage
The Wreck of the Royal Charter | Llongddrylliad Royal Charter - Plundered by ‘Natives’? | Wedi’i hysbeilio gan ‘Frodorion’? | Ports, Past and Present
The horrific wreck of Royal Charter in 1859 had all of the elements of a sensational story: huge loss of life and riches in the form of Australian gold. Men were seen 'picking sovereigns out of the holes and crevices of the rocks as they would shell fish.' A news feast accused the people of Anglesey of plundering the wreck and stripping the bodies of victims washing ashore. Enroute from Melbourne, Australia in 1859, the steam clipper Royal Charter had called at Cobh before heading into the...