Wreck of the Gosamer and Marana

[Terry]

from one of Devon's OPCs
Burials at Prawle
Fiche 8 entry 457
John THOMPSON [Captain of Gosamer] From the wreck of the Gosamer at Prawle
Point buried 14 Dec 1868 aged 36
Two other male bodies of unknown men also buried.

Fiche 8
entry 629
Edward RASSMUSSON from the wreck of the Marana near Prawle buried 18 Mar
1891 aged 30
entry 630
STEINBOM from the wreck of the Marana bur 18 Mar 1891 age unknown
Entry 631
NILSON from the wreck of the Marana buried 18 Mar 1891 age unknown
Entry 632
Male person unknown, but indentifed as John MONK from the wreck of the
Marana buried 18 Mar 1891 age unknown
4 other unknown named male persons buried on the same day.
Entry 636
F. MITCHELL of Firazerburgh?, found on the Cliffs at Prawle from the wreck
of the Marana buried 27 Mar 1891 aged abt 30
Entry 640
Male person unknown but identified as James WATSON of Waterloo, Liverpool,
washed ashore at Prawle suppose

[hmclean]

The F. Mitchell listed among the dead from the Marana was actually J. Mitchell, of Fraserburgh. I have a copy of his death entry from the Marine Register held at the Scottish Records Office in Edinburgh. He may (or may not) be James Mitchell, born in Fraserburgh and initially apprenticed as a sail maker. His last known address was 26 Constance Street, Victoria Dock, (presumably the one in London), although this was probably lodgings.

Co-incidentally, another James Mitchell, also a sail maker to trade, and from Banff, just a few miles up the coast from Fraserburgh, was lost on the Bay of Panama, which went down in the same storm.

I'd be interested in any other information that anyone has on the Marana, or on the elusive J. Mitchell.