Wreck of the Anglo Saxon
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The Anglo Saxon was an iron screw steam vessel belonging to the Montreal Ocean Steamship Co. and was commanded by Captain William Burgess. She sailed from Liverpool for Quebec on the 16th of April 1863, with passengers and crew totalling 445. On the 27th of April, in dense fog, she ran around four miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland. The ship broke up within an hour of hitting the rocks, and sank. 237 people died, making this one of Canada's worst shipwrecks. http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Wrecks/anglosaxon.htm http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/ANGLOSAXON.html
Among those saved was Anne Bertram, sister of John Bertram and George Hope Bertram, both later Canadian MPs, who was travelling with Charlotte Hope, daughter of Scots agriculturalist, George Hope.
