Single leaf quarto broadside sheet. Printed within decoratie black borders, with a woodcut of a steamship at head. Dated in manuscript, 'Septem. 1881' beneath drop-head title An apparently unrecorded broadside ballad, consisting of six eight-line stanzas and composed to fit the Air "Sailor's Grave", lamenting the loss of the Royal Mail Steamship Teuton, which grounded and sank en route to Algoa Bay, from Table Bay (both South Africa) on August 30th 1881. Flipping on its vertical axis caused complications with the lifeboats, resulting in just 27 of the 242 souls on board- which included emigrants to South Africa from Great Britain, and local businessmen embarking on local journeys- surviving the tragedy. Size: Dimensions 190 x 250mm.

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Title: Loss of nearly 200 lives At Sea, off the Coast of Africa, on board of Stempship 'Teuton'. Several from Porthleven and other Cornish places
Publisher: Woolcock, General & Commercial Printer

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