Foundering of a schooner with the loss of all hands
Shortly after this casualty, a schooner, in endeavouring to enter Shields Harbour, was overwhelmed at the entrance by high seas, and foundered, drowning all hands-supposed to number six. The schooner's name is the New Cornwall, belonging to Barnstaple.
Source Northern Echo 22nd December 1876
Within half an hour of the wreck of the Albion, a small schooner named the New Cornwall, in coming into the Tyne, was struck by three heavy seas, and capsized, the whole of her crew being drowned. She was a vessel of 75 tons register, built at Barnstable, in 1872, and belonged to Mr Samuel Pront, of Barnstable.
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The name the captain of the foundered schooner New Cornwall, of Barnstaple, has been ascertained to be Richard Prout, and was a brother the owner. The vessel was bound from Antwerp for the Tyne, in ballast.
Source:Shields Daily Gazette 22 December 1876