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ADX/1380: The Steamship Rambler

Acc. 3186

Ref: ADX/1380

Reference: [GB 0212] ADX/1380
Title: The Steamship Rambler
Date(s): n.d.
Level: Fonds
Extent: 1 file

Scope and Content:
Research on 'The Heart-breaking and Sudden Event that happened on Board the Steamship Rambler from Glasgow in Cette, France' on 1 January 1884, commemorated in a Welsh ballad of the above title. Two Ceredigion men (David Davies, 'Swan', Aberarth and Thomas Jones, 1 Darkgate St., Aberaeron) lost their lives through closing themselves in their living quarters with a bucket of live coals on the floor, and another (John Davies of Esgerarth, Aberarth) barely survived.