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May 3, 2021 · The story of Hugh Williams shipwrecks have been published with varying details for nearly 200 years, but the facts of the tale are somewhat at sea. Multiple sources claim the maritime accidents occurred in the Menai Strait , a 24km-long channel in North Wales separating the island of Anglesey from the mainland where shipwrecks and other deadly ...
Jul 16, 2012 · In 1820 on December 5th, a third vessel sank in the Menai Strait. All 25 aboard were drowned except, you guessed it, a man named Hugh Williams. An amazing tale, but is it history or just a an oft retold sea story? It could easily be a bit of each.
Aug 27, 2022 · The usual form of the story is that in the 1664 sinking, a boat carrying 81 passengers was sailing from Caernarfon, Gwynedd to Abermenai, near Newborough, Anglesey, and sank a short distance from the Anglesey shore after encountering a gale, and the only survivor was Hugh Williams.
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Jul 19, 2012 · It recounted how three men named Hugh Williams were each the only survivors of shipwrecks in the treacherousness Menai Straits off North Wales. More remarkably, two of the Hugh Williams escaped from shipwrecks on the same day, December 5th separated by over a hundred years.
Apr 10, 2024 · In 1820 on December 5th, a third vessel sank in the Menai Strait. All 25 aboard were drowned except, you guessed it, a man named Hugh Williams. An amazing tale, but is it history or just an oft retold sea story? It could easily be a bit of each.
Hugh Anthony Glanmor Williams (6 March 1904 – 7 December 1969) was a British actor and dramatist of Welsh descent. [1]
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Apr 18, 2019 · A myth about a Welsh name that survived four shipwrecks in the Menai Strait, a treacherous stretch of water off the coast of Wales. Learn about the history, the legend, and the coincidence of Hugh Williams and the Swellies.
