CAPE HENLOPEN HISTORY
1798
DE BRAAK HISTORY
The Monday, July 2, 1798,
London England Evening Mail newspaper reported
that Mr. Vincent Low who
arrived London from Cape Henlopen yesterday afternoon
brought news of the
loss of the Britanic Majesty's sloop of war, De Braak, Captain
Drew,
master, which overset
in Old Kiln Roads about 4 o'clock, afternoon Friday last, in
fine seas t the time,
under mainsail, and, reefed topsails, about to drop anchor, her
boat at
her side, waiting for the
Captain, who intended to go ashore at Lewes Town when a sudden
slew of wind laid her
down on her beam ends, filled with sea, and went down with Drew
,
and the ships company,
except for the boatswain and 25 others who escaped in the life
boat.
The DeBraak had left the
fleet off the Western Islands for some strange reason and
had been unable to rejoin
the convoy.
De Braak's crew of 85
persons in all, half of them survived included those aboard a
prize ship she had taken,
leaving the Prize Master, a midshipman, and boatswain.
Captain Drew's lady was
in New York where she was every hour in anxious
expectation of the
happiness of meeting him.
The 'prize' lies at the
cape's fort.
Abstract: London
England's, Evening Mail, Monday, July 2, 1782, courtesy
of
Terry Hansen of
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