On Wed, 28 May 2008 07:15:43 -0400, Karen Oleson <[email protected]> wrote: >Loss of the Albion off Kinsale Head, Kinsale, County Cork - 1822 > I wonder if there was a news article of this mishap [...] Google is your friend. Searching on Albion Kinsale gives a number of relevant results. E.g. some restrospective comments towards the start of http://scholar.library.miami.edu/stewart/diary2.html and a number of pages in an account, quoting various contemporary letters and a newspaper article, in Gogglebooks's digital version of The Mariner's Chronicle, 1832 (pp. 447-452) at http://tinyurl.com/45v5ud Another Googlebook at http://tinyurl.com/54crau says that "Major Gough, of the British Army, remarked, that 'Death, come as he would, was an unwelcome messenger, but we must meet him as we could'."