Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Saved by the Bladder
"A woman of the name of Maclane, residing at Gosport, accustomed to supply the crew of Queen Charlotte with slops went out in a wherry to Spithead, when a sudden squall coming on, the boat sank; the watermen were drowned, but the life of the woman was providentially saved, by being buoyed up with a quantity of bladders, which had been secreted round her for the purpose of smuggling liquor into the ship, until she was picked up by the boat of a transport lying near."
Hampshire Chronicle of March 25th 1799
Source: www.burtonbradstock.org.uk
www.stories-of-ged.co.uk
Hampshire Chronicle of March 25th 1799
Source: www.burtonbradstock.org.uk
www.stories-of-ged.co.uk
