The first biography of Richard Peirce, captain in the service of the East India Company, and account of the wreck of his ship, the Halsewell, off Dorset in 1786.
Bound for the East Indies
... 1786, The Scots Magazine published this letter, from a resident of Christchurch. Every day brings in fresh intelligence of dead bodies being cast on shore on the west beach, from the wreck of the unfortunate Halsewell Indiaman. There ...
British Art and the East India Company
... Halsewell wreck needs to be viewed in the light of the textual representa ... Captain Pierce, placed the incident within a much wider set of cultural ... 1786). This ran to twenty-one editions in its first year of publication, and was ...
The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part III vol 12
... Halsewell ... perished—] This East India Company trading ship was wrecked on the Rocks of Purbeck, near the Isle of Portland, on 6 January 1786. Only 74 of the 240 people on board survived. Several sources recount the history of this wreck ...
Shipwreck in Art and Literature
... Halsewell at anchor prior to departure, with Pierce and his passengers ... captain's quarters.11 Another image, now lost, again offered an external perspective on the ship as a whole; newspaper adverts promised that it 'minutely describ[ed] ...
England & Wales delineated, by T. Dugdale, assisted by W. Burnett. (Curiosities of Great Britain).
... wreck of the Halsewell East Indiaman took place , in January , 1786. This vessel , one of the finest in the service of the East India Company , was commanded by Captain Pierce , an officer of distinguished ability and exemplary ...
England & Wales Delineated. (Curiosities of Great Britain.) ...
... wreck of the Halsewell East Indiaman took place , in January , 1786. This vessel , one of the finest in the service of the East India Company , was commanded by Captain Pierce , an officer of distinguished ability and exemplary ...
The Works of Charlotte Smith
... Halsewell ... perished— ] This East India Company trading ship was wrecked on the Rocks of Purbeck , near the Isle of Portland , on 6 January 1786. Only 74 of the 240 people on board survived . Several sources recount the history of this ...
