by John Marshall

“ About four o’clock in the morning of Monday, the tempest had increased to a perfect hurricane, and within two lamentable hours from that period, we shudder to state, not less than three gallant vessels were shivered to atoms on the coast, within a short distance of each other; and at least seventy human beings instantaneously consigned by a watery death to eternity. ”

“ The vessels proved to be the Jasper brig of war, Captain Carew, wrecked on the Bear’s Head, at Mount Batten; the Princess Mary packet. Captain Pocock, in Deadman’s Bay; and the Telegraph schooner, Lieutenant John Little, under the Eastern Hoe. ”

“ Turner, acting lieutenant, and six men were killed. His subsequent gallant conduct as first lieutenant of the Piedmontaise frigate. Captain Charles Foote, at the storming of the defences of Banda-Neira, the principal of the Dutch Spice Islands, was duly represented by the senior officer, Captain (now Sir Christopher) Cole. [2]
On the 22d Nov. 1813, Lieutenant Carew was appointed to the Rodney 74, Captain Charles Inglis; in which ship he continued until promoted to the command of the Jasper sloop, June 7th, 1814. ”