Pandora, The

DESCRIPTION: The Pandora "went down in Youghal Bay." On November 18 she sailed from Nova Scotia and, after seven days of heavy seas, sank after striking a rock. Captain Hardcastle "ordered out the longboat in hopes to reach the land" but many "perished in the deep"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1943 (Ranson-SongsOfTheWexfordCoast)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck sailor
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ranson-SongsOfTheWexfordCoast, p. 11, "The Pandora" (1 text)
Roud #20530
NOTES [116 words]: Youghal Bay is in County Cork. Ranson-SongsOfTheWexfordCoast: "'The Pandora' was a Wexford vessel ... homeward bound with timber."
The only Pandora listed by Bourke is a Wexford brig that sank December 15, 1848 (see Bourke in Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast v1, p. 100)- BS
A more famous Pandora was an English warship sent out in late 1790 to search for the mutinous crew of the Bounty. On August, 1791 it struck a reef near the ill-fated island of Vanikoro and sank with large loss of life. Clearly not the inspiration of this song, but it might have added to the aura of ill fate about the name Pandora. There was also an 18-gun warship Pandora, wrecked February 13, 1811 off Jutland. - RBW
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