Women of Mumbles and Admiral Prinz Adalbert (1883)

Description

It happens, no doubt, that from Bristol you’ve crossed in a casual way,And have sailed your yacht in the summer in the blue of Swansea Bay.

Well! it isn’t like that in the winter, when the lighthouse stands alone,In the teeth of Atlantic breakers that foam on its face of stone;It wasn’t like that when the hurricane blew, and the storm-bell tolled,or whenThere was news of a wreck, and the lifeboat launched, and a desperate cry for men.

-The Women of Mumbles Head by Clement Scott.

The women that inspired the pen of Clement Scott to such an extent that he would immortalize them in verse were two sisters, Jessie and Margaret, the daughters of the light house keeper of the Mumbles Lighthouse. As suggested by Clement Scott the Mumbles lighthouse was not a stranger to fierce Atlantic winter storms, but something unusually fierce was brewing in late January 1883.

Ship Name: Admiral Prinz Adalbert

Tonnage: 885

Nationality: German

Ship Type: Barque

Year Wrecked: 1883

Location Wrecked: Mumbles Wales

Reason For Wreck: Blown into Mixon Sands in Storm

Lives Lost: 1 from ship, 4 members of the lifeboat crew trying to rescue them.

Sources:

https://sites.google.com/site/ahistoryofmumbles/author-collections/articles-by-carol-powell/cricket-tea-and-tragedy-on-the-mixon-sands-by-carol-powell-m-a?authuser=0

https://sites.google.com/site/ahistoryofmumbles/author-collections/articles-by-kate-jones/ready-punch-and-the-1883-mumbles-lifeboat-disaster-by-kate-jones

https://rnliarchive.blob.core.windows.net/media/1136/0129.pdf