Death of John Clark of Antrim.

Transcribed from the Belfast Newsletter, 29 December, 1786

Died lately on the Guinea coast Mr. John Clark of
Antrim who had been one of the eleven saved in an open
boat in Oct. 1782 out of H.M.S. Centaur.  Though on that
dreadful occasion only eleven on the whole crew of a 74
gun ship reached the shore, after being fifteen days
tossed about on the open ocean with scarcely any food,
not one of the number could recover their wages on
account it is supposed of the loss of the ships books.