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The unfortunate voyage. or, A full and true account of fifty eight persons. : Who were drowned as they were coming from Maidstone Fair to London, in the Grevesend tilt-boat. With a particular list of those that are known, with their names and places where they lived. As also, an account of two Blackwall-Wheries, which were cast away the same evening, with the loss of thirty passengers.

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Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed by R.G. in Little Britain, 1698.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Shipwrecks > England > Early works to 1800. Drowning victims > England > Early works to 1800. Broadsides > England > 17th century.
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