A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=42939 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: The New Jersey Journal Article Date: June 5 1798 Article Description: British Sloop Braak Lost near Port of Lewes. Article Text: Philadelphia, May 28, 1798: By word of MR VINCENT LOW, who has arrived here from Cape Henlopen yesterday afternoon, we have received the melancholy news of the loss of his Britannic Magesty's sloop of war, Braak, Captain Drew, which overset at Old Kiln roads about 4 o'clock Friday last afternoon. She was at the time under mainsails and reefed topsails, just about to cast anchor, a mile from the light house, her boat alongside waiting for the captain who intended to go on shore at Lewes Town. A sudden slew of of wind laid her down on her beam ends and she immediately filled and went down with CAPTAIN DREW, his lieutenant and thirty officers, seamen and Marines. The rest of the ships company, about twenty five, including the boatswain, escaped in the boats and several were taken up by a pilot boat. The Braak had parted with the fleet off the Western Islands in chase of a strange sail and was unable to rejoin in the convoy. About twenty five days ago she fell in with and captured a Spanish ship from LaPlate bound for Spain with valuable cargo of 200 tons of cooper in bars, a quantity of cocoa, the prize which arrived in the Delaware bay. Twelve of the prisoners were lost in the sloop of war. The unfortunate Captain DREWwas a brother to Captain DREW of the frigate Cerberus who was drowned in Plymouth sound on the 15th of January last. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com