s.s. 'Alliance' - The Report of the formal enquiry into the loss of the vessel during December 1884 - page 1. - [000] [20200621]

The Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1876.

'In the matter of a formal Investigation held at Cardiff on the 13th and 14th days of February 1885, before Robert Arthur Valpy, Esq, Stipendiary Magistrate, assisted by Admiral Pickard and Captain Davies, Assessors, into the circumstances attending the supposed loss of the British steamship “ ALLIANCE," of Cardiff, whilst on a voyage from Cardiff to St. Nazaire, in December last.'

'The fate of the vessel can only be a matter of conjecture, but there is evidence that a heavy gale sprang up immediately after she left Cardiff', and continued for some time ; if she passed by Lundy Roads and proceeded to sea , it seems not improbable that she foundered off the Cornish coast in that gale.'