s.v. 'Bertha' - 'The French schooner, Bertha, Barnard master, from Nantes, bound to Penarth, with a cargo of barley, which had gone adrift and shifting, rendering the vessel unmanageable, in endeavouring to get into Scilly on Thursday struck on a deep ledge near the island of St. Martin’s, and began to fill with water. Immediately the crew, with a pilot, lowered the boat, and pulled ashore to St. Martin’s. The Bertha sank in deep water soon after the crew had left her, and they lost all their clothes and other effects.' - Western Daily Press [899] 6th February 1869 - [898]