Melancholy shipwreck: The following lines were occasioned by the loss of the schooner Charles, Captain Adams, of Portland, which was wrecked on Richmond's Island, near the entrance of Portland harbour, on the night of the 12th of July, 1807, which schooner had on board 22 persons, sixteen of whom perished

Composed by Thomas Shaw, of Standish. Poetry. Printed area measures: 39.4 x 15.2 cm. Printed in two columns separated and surrounded by mourning border; wood-engravings of sixteen coffins at head. Poem in 29 stanzas. Dated: Portland, July 14, 1807. Prose passage with further details of disaster below poem. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker, Wegelin a Bristol. First line: Come all kind husbands now behold.