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HMS Saldanha

Lough Swilly, County Donegal

A frigate lost with all hands, whose parrot turned up months later.

The frigate HMS Saldanha was last seen off Fanad Head on 4 December 1811, in a storm. Next morning she lay wrecked in Ballymastocker Bay, and everyone aboard was lost; around 200 bodies washed ashore.

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When
December 1811
Where
55.2500, -7.5600
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

Ballymastocker Bay and Fanad Head overlook the area.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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