ADELAIDE
- Name: Adelaide
- Type of vessel: merchant ship, barque
- Flag: United Kingdom
- Date of sinking: 19 December 1850
- Cause: ran aground, storm
- Location: Laxe bay To be located.
- Diving level: –
- GALP territory: Costa da Morte (Coast of Death)
HISTORY
Its captain was the only survivor
The Adelaide was coming into port when a change in the direction of the wind blew her onto the beach at Laxe. With 14 crew and 3 passengers, only the captain, William Dovell, survived. The bodies of his wife and son are buried in a courtyard annexed to the cemetery of the parish church of Santa María da Atalia, located on a hill in the village of Laxe and overlooking the sea where they perished.
The Adelaide was a barque, a three-masted ship (131 GRT). 30.3 X 7.6 X 5.28 m) based in Bristol (UK) and owned by the captain himself, William Dovell, and Charles Hill.
It covered the Bristol to St. Vincent route, in the West Indies, with a cargo of coal, rye, barrels of guano and quicklime.
It is possible that this shipwreck may have been worked on in order to recover part of the cargo.
GALLERY