5 March – the Count de Belgioioso, bound from
Liverpool to
China, founders on the
Kish Bank in
Dublin Bay in a storm. On 2 June,
Scottish diver
Charles Spalding and his nephew Ebenezer Watson die in attempting to salvage the £150,000-worth of cargo from the ship using a
diving bell of Spalding's design.[1][2]
^Bevan, John (2005-11-05), "Charles Spalding's Diving Bells: paper", Presented to a meeting of the Historical Diving Society at Norwegian Underwater Institute, Bergen
^Galloway, Peter (1999). The Most Illustrious Order: The Order of St Patrick and its Knights. London: Unicorn.
ISBN0906290236.