Drowned in a northerly gale in 1875.

 
St Mary the Virgin, Holy Island, Northumberland
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We visited Holy Island on our way up to Scotland while on our annual holiday. We expected to find evidence of sailors being drowned and we were not disappointed.
 

 

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