Ship Surprise Looted at Annalong.
Transcribed from the Belfast Newsletter of 28 Nov 1794. Account of the looting of a guinea ship stranded at Annalong. She was the Surprise of Liverpool. The country people assembled in thousands in an hour and did not leave a mast or piece of rigging standing. Mr. Moore, a neighbouring J.P. attended by a seargeant, corporal and 12 men went down that evening from Rostrevor and found the people busy plundering. Upon their refusal to desist he ordered the party to fire. One man was shot through the shoulder another was stabbed in the belly and has since died. The magistrate was obliged to withdraw his troops and retire to Kilkeel.Close