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Manx Genealogy

Re: SS Abydos
In Response To: SS Abydos ()

Corkil - in Wrecks of IoM (on CD Rom) has
ABYDOS
Type: Steamship Hull: Iron Tonnage: 1113 tons gross
Length: 231.1 ft
Beam: 31.2 ft
Draught: 21.8 ft
Owner: Raeburn & Verel
Builder: London and Glasgow Steamboat Company
Year Built: 1871
Engines: Compound - 130 hp
On the night of 22nd December 1894, the steamship Abydos, of London, was caught off the Isle of Man in the worst storm since 1839, the wind being reported as hurricane force west-northwest. She was on a voyage from Glasgow to Savona, laden with coal, and foundered off the Calf of Man. All twenty-one of the crew perished. The first bodies were found at the back of Port Erin breakwater four days after it was surmised that she had been lost. All were wearing lifejackets and all had died from hypothermia not drowning, and were found at first light. Amongst this batch of bodies was the wreckage of a lifeboat. Later on in the day fishermen working off Fleshwick spotted a large quantity of wreckage, including deckhouses. They also located a further body.
On 2nd January 1895, another body of a crewman was found on the Calf of Man, above the high water mark, the life belt unstrapped from his body and lying alongside on the ground. It was supposed that after being thrown on the shore, he was able to crawl a short distance before taking his belt off and then being too exhausted to proceed further, he lay down and died of exposure or hunger.
On Tuesday 26th March 1895, the steam trawler Scart, of Douglas, picked up in her nets the body of a man about 7 miles off Niarbyl. From papers found on the body it proved to be that of a seaman named Duncan Findlayson, of Ross. This was the sixth body recovered and it was landed at Douglas. According to a report in the Ramsey Weekly Times the Abydos was supposed to have foundered off the southwest coast of the Isle of Man:
"It is thought that the vessel foundered off the `Corner' at the Calf and the bodies and articles recovered would be scattered by contrasting currents which prevail there. That would account for the buoys and other things found on the west coast and the body (of William John Phillips) found to the eastward of Poolvash. There has been very little wreckage, however, thrown up."

I can only see one burial that in Arbory which would be explained by body appearing in Poolvash - possibly the others were buried as unknown