Thank you so much for this heads up ... I sometimes forget about Google Books and their fine work! Saw recently that Microsoft is stopping their library ... :\ This has truly been a help and will add color to my family history. Thank you! Karen > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:03:09 GMT > From: [email protected] (cecilia) > Subject: Re: GENIRE Digest, Vol 3, Issue 134 > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > 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'." > >