On Sunday night, we were visited by a most tremendous gale upon this coast, accompanied by heavy rain which, we are grieved to learn, has caused the shipwreck of two vessels belonging to this port. The Abundance, Captain Leslie, and the Hunter, Capt. Mortimer, coal landed, left Sunderland on Saturday last, in company with the Jason, Gavin; and on Monday morning, about one o'clock, were put ashore; the former among the rocks at Collistown; and the latter on the sands of Forvie. The Abundance is a total wreck; and we are concerned to state that Capt. Leslie, with 4 of his seamen, and a passenger of the name of Birnie, a seafaring man, perished among the breakers. The mate and one seaman were with difficulty saved. The crew of the Hunter were happily saved; and her materials are got on shore, but it is doubtful whether her hull will be got off. - When these vessels left Sunderland, they saw the Crimmongate, Anderson, going in.
Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 27th January 1819.
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