Friendship (Whitford 1767)

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1767 - The Friendship was a brig carrying a mixed cargo (including 252 tons of pig iron, 3000 deerskins, 90 pieces of mahogany and cedar, 4 hogsheads of rum, a cask of snake root and 37 barrels of turpentine) from Philadelphia to Bristol,driven ashore on to Whitford beach. [See an account of the wreck in Robert Carl Smith's Gower Coast Shipwrecks] (ref 112)