The London papers by the Bremen contain the particulars of the loss of the bark Tonquin, of Bath, Maine:
London, Feb. 19.—Report of Henry Smith, one of the two sole survivors of the wreck of the American bark Tonquin, lost in the gale of Saturday week. The captain (Batchelder), his wife, and eleven hands were lost. The ship sailed from Greenock for Brazil with a cargo of railway iron and had to put into Lamlash Bay, whence she sailed on the 8th inst. Same evening the cargo began to shift, and the ship making water, the captain ordered to lay the ship to. When about 15 or 20 miles off Wicklow Head, the ship went down. One boat was got out, with four hands and the master; but the ship rolling over caught foul of the boat and brought her down. Two of the hands, Henry Smith and Frederick Peterson, got on the fore-deck house, where they remained till Monday morning, at 2 o’clock, when they were drawn on shore at Mizzen Head, about six miles south of Wicklow Head. Henry Smith was a seaman on board the bark Tonquin.
The Daily Exchange, Baltimore, MD, March 11, 1861