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The Rothesay Castle

Off Puffin Island, Anglesey

A worn-out paddle steamer that broke up with over 100 lost.

The paddle steamer Rothesay Castle left Liverpool for Beaumaris on a summer trip, already old and in poor repair. In a storm she ran onto the Dutchman Bank, off Puffin Island, and broke apart.

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When
18 August 1831
Where
53.3000, -4.0300
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

Penmon Point has views of Puffin Island and the lighthouse.

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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