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Shipwreck.- Fellowes (William Dorset) A Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty's Packet The Lady Hobart on an island of ice in the Atlantic Ocean..., sixth edition, the author's copy with some corrections to text and with his extensive manuscript annotations in ink commenting on the text, mostly on interleaves, signed and inscribed by him to "...his esteemed friend James Hooper as a testimony of his regard. W.D.Fellowes, August 1850" on front pastedown, light foxing and soiling and marginal water-staining, contemporary half calf, rubbed, corners and spine ends worn, 8vo, 1803. ⁂ Fellowes was in command of The Lady Hobart sailing from Halifax to England when she struck an iceberg and sank, forcing the crew to abandon ship and crowd into two lifeboats with very few supplies. They landed near St.John's eight days later, having suffered dreadful hardship from hunger and frostbite. As he comments opposite p.22, "I had no time to take any precautions myself, I refused to put on my uniform coat, and foolishly threw it from me, having gold lace so unsuited to our position - consequently I had no other covering than a thin bleu jacket - no hat, neither shoes, or stockings, and only a pair of thin loose bleu trousers, without drawers - so equipped, it may be easily imagined what I suffered!". At the end of the work is a list of the crew and Fellowes adds below, "The surgeon (luckily for him) was left on shore the night of our putting to sea, so sudden was the execution of my orders to do so".