WHAT A COINCIDENCE
An English ship, Menai, was lost in a gale in 1664, and of the eightyone passengers on board, only one was saved, and his name was Hugh Williams. A pleasure schooner was wrecked on the Isle of Man; of sixty persons in the boat, only one survived—Hugh Williams. A picnicking party of twenty-five persons, mostly children, was run down by a coal barge in 1820; all perished but one child—Hugh Williams. The strangest of these coincidences was when a Leeds coal barge foundered in 1889. Two of the nine men aboard were rescued, an uncle and his nephew—and both were named Hugh Williams!
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 60, 9 December 1946, Page 2
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106WHAT A COINCIDENCE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 60, 9 December 1946, Page 2
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