On Monday, the 1st instant, an inquest was held at the house of Mr Christopher Robson, Queen's Head Inn, Amble, parish of Warkworth, before Thomas Adams Russell, Esq., coroner, on view of the body of Peter Nicolius Poy, aged 48 years, steersman of the Danish galliot Frau Anna, which left Rendsberg on the 16th March, with a cargo of oil cake, bound for Leith; On Saturday last she arrived at the Coquet Roads, off the coast of Northumberland; she met with a heavy gale and a high sea, and on running for Warkworth harbour, struck against the end of the pier, several persons being present at the time, and in the course of a few minutes became a total wreck. The deceased, the masters (Jann Eggers), a seaman and a boy were all washed overboard; the three latter were saved, but the vessel heeling up, it is supposed that the deceased had been carried in below her, as on his body being found amongst the wreck on the following day his limbs were severed from his body. Verdict: Accidental death.---
[The Newcastle Courant Friday, April 5, 1850]
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