Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - The Case of Price vs Livingstone at the Court of Appeal - 1882 . . .

The local Press recorded the events :

Terrific Storm - Disasters at Sea & Great Destruction of Property - The ship Buckhurst, of London, about two thousand tons register, Captain McIntyre, from Penarth for Bombay with coal, parted from her anchors and drove ashore on Penarth beach; badly strained and filled with the tide; she also collided with the schooner Merchant and the brig Creole, of Salcombe, dismasting the latter.' - Monmouthshire Merlin [167] [361] 21st January 1881.

Great Storm at Cardiff - 'The storm which broke over Cardiff on Tuesday was one of an unprecedented violence. The cold was intense, and a blinding snow fell—or, rather, was blown about. Here and there snow drifts were formed, to the great inconvenience of pedestrians. The shopkeepers closed their doors, and almost appeared to be frozen up. Trade was at a standstill, and the extraordinary weather had the effect of giving the streets a most desolate aspect. About twenty vessels were driven ashore at Cardiff and Penarth, and thirty-two men were rescued from various vessels at the latter named place.' . . . .

'The fine new iron ship Buckhurst, of London, Captain McIntyre, about 2,000 tons register, with a cargo of coal, from Penarth for Bombay, left Penarth Docks on Sunday morning about seven o'clock and was towed out to the Roads. She dropped her anchor about nine o'clock in a snug berth in the outer roads, as the weather was even then threatening. On Tuesday morning she had two anchors out, and held on to about six o'clock in the evening, when the port anchor parted, with 95 fathoms of cable ; soon after the starboard anchor followed with 60 fathoms. The jib was then set, to get her before the wind to run her on the mud but she struck on the Cardiff sands, and remained pumping for two hours. She then got over, when the pumps were sounded, and 15ft. of water was found in her.

The night was very dark, and the thick snow blinded everyone, and the extreme cold benumbed all hands and, as the ship was driven before the gale, she fouled the schooner Merchant, damaging her bulwarks, and coming into collision with the brig Creole, of Salcombe, in ballast, for Cardiff, she dismasted her, but both vessels remained afloat. The ship had her jibboom carried away, and about eleven o'clock she grounded on the beach, near the lifeboat house.