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Charles Dickens wrote in his short story The Long Voyage: “See the Halsewell, East Indiaman outward bound, driving madly on a January night towards the rocks near Seacombe, on the island of Purbeck! …The description of her loss, familiar to me from my early boyhood, seems to be read aloud as she rushes to her destiny.” For Dickens the Halsewell was a vessel to express final regrets and a contemplation of a new year, but at one time it had been the pride of the British East India Company.

Ship Name: Halsewell

Nationality: British

Built: 1778

Tonnage: 758

Ship Type: East Indiaman

Year Wrecked: 1786

Reason For Wreck: Wrecked in a Storm Against a Cliff

Lives Lost: At least 166

Sources:

https://www.nauticalarchaeologysociety.org/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=83f7a4bf-d10b-4d7c-8f2f-e10dd7f8142d

https://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2010/12/the-loss-of-the-halsewell/

https://books.google.com/books?id=XjQaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA615&dq=halsewell+shipwreck&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9_q630rH9AhVRIH0KHQWnCOk4ChDoAXoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=halsewell%20shipwreck&f=false

https://americanliterature.com/author/charles-dickens/short-story/the-long-voyage

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https://archive.org/details/ahistoryshipwre01reddgoog/page/n194/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/papersreadbefor00socigoog/page/n178/mode/2up

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