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 Death Announcements 1731-1831

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Transcribed bySteve van Dulken

Surname  Morris    
Rank/ occupation  Captain    
Unit  EICS Colebrooke    
Death date  1779    
Place of death  Passage to Bombay off Cape of Good Hope    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  Jan 1779    
Page number  46    
Detail  Historical Chronicle. 15 Jan. Advice now received at the India-house of the loss of the Colebrooke East Indiaman, Capt. Morris, to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, bound to Bombay in China, on a sunken rock. The crew, excepting about 20 sailors, was saved; but the captain, being determined to be the last man onboard, perished with the wreck.    
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