It’s time to leave the land for a while, and post some stories of the sea:

‘On Monday, 12^th March, 1827, about noon, during a heavy gale, as Archibald and William Clarke were conveying Miss Margaret Cochrane across the ferry from Greencastle to Magilligan Point, when about a hundred yards from the Magilligan shore the boat upset and, awful to relate, these three individuals were almost instantly consigned to a watery grave.  A fourth person on board, a lad named John McKeevers, who had charge of the helm, narrowly escaped death by climbing on the keel of the boat.  The two unfortunate brothers who perished were as expert and respectable boatmen as any on our river.  One of them was only a few months married.  Miss Cochrane was an amiable and interesting young woman; she had been on a visit for some time at her brothers, William Cochrane of Derry, and George Cochrane of Quigley’s Point, and was hastening home to her father in Portrush, who was anxiously looking out for her return, when the dreadful catastrophe occurred’.