"A fatal accident of a very disastrous kind occurred on the Solway Firth on Sunday afternoon, April 26, 1868. Five young men, employed at Annan, set out from that port in a small boat, rigged up with a sail, and crossed the Solway Firth to Bowness, on the Cumberland shore. They reached their destination in safety, and in the afternoon set out for home with the ebb tide. They had not proceeded halfway across when it was observed from the shore that their mast had got wrong and the sail swayed over the side. Shortly afterwards the boat capsized, and all the five men were thrown into the sea. Three of them sank almost immediately, being quite unable to resist the powerful force of the ebbing tide, and were drowned, but the other two clung to the overturned boat, which drifted down to the railway bridge which crosses the Firth below Bowness. There, it is conjectured, the anchor dragged against the piles of the viaduct, for the boat swung around. The two men, who were still clinging to it, made a desperate effort to save themselves, but the boat filled with water and sank, carrying with it the only two survivors of the pleasure party, and thus increasing the number of deaths to five." Extracted from the Maryborough Chronicle, Qld., Australia dated July 23, 1868 NOTE: There is no mention of any names in this article. Janet