SS Anglo Saxon

SS Anglo Saxon

SS "Anglo Saxon" was an iron screw steam ship belonging to the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company. She was commanded by Captain William Burgess. She sailed from Liverpool for Quebec on 16 April 1863, with a total of 445 passengers and crew.

On 27 April, in dense fog, she ran aground four miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland. The ship broke up within an hour of hitting the rocks, and sank. Of those on board 237 people died, making this one of Canada's worst shipwrecks.

Among those saved was Anne Bertram, sister of John Bertram and George Hope Bertram, both later Canadian MPs, who was travelling with Charlotte Hope, daughter of Scots agriculturalist, George Hope.

References

* [http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Wrecks/anglosaxon.htm Wreck of the "Anglo Saxon" at theshipslist.com]
* [http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/ANGLOSAXON.html Report on the wreck in the Liverpool Mercury]


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