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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
Well, after all this time I finally picked up a report on the trial after the Captain & 1st Mates murder.....here's the link. There is also a secondary link to a passengers letter, well worth reading. Sounds very much like a hell hole to me. Just like Accy town centre every saturday night.
The murder of the Captain and chief officer of the ACCRINGTON |
I don't know whether this thread is still alive but people interested in the SS Accrington, built in around 1855, might find it interested that a young Icelandic seaman, Sveinbjörn Egilson, signed as an AB on the Accrington in Liverpool in 1885. The Accrington sailed to Calcutta in ballast and Egilson describes the voyage in detail in a book he later wrote in Icelandic on his voyages, mainly on British sailing ships. Egilson's accounts on his voyages are quite remarkable and well written since he was well educated. Egilson was a son of an Icelandic merchant and his grandfather was the Headmaster of the Bessastadir Grammar School. Egilson had graduated from that school and had completed the first year of two in the Clergical School of Reykjavík, Iceland when he sailed to Liverpool to join the Accrington and then other British clippers. Unfortunately, his book has not been translated into English. These accounts would presumably be considered an important part of British merchant marine history.