by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Spry, Thomas (1823)
“ In the following year Captain Spry commanded the Ulysses, of 44 guns, on the Jamaica station. On the 2d of Oct. that ship lost all her masts in a hurricane, which extended its rage to almost all the other islands: it was attended with frequent and violent shocks of an earthquake; an extraordinary and sudden elevation of the sea broke in and overwhelmed the town of Savanna le Mar, and on its retreat swept every thing away, so us not to leave the smallest vestige of man, beast, or house behind. ”
