Joseph Rodgers, Able Seaman

Joseph Rodgers, (b. 1830 in Malta - ?), seaman of the Royal Charter, a ship which sank off the coast of Anglesey on 26th October 1859 in terrible storms. Hundreds perished, but Rodgers swam ashore with a rope to which the ship's hawser (a thick cable) was attached and thus managed to save some lives

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