British East Indiaman Reliance wrecked according to the Dutch newspaper Zierikzeesche Courant dated 22 November 1842

An item reported that recently off the French coast the beautiful British ship reliance, master Thomas Greene with a measurement of 1,515 tons was wrecked. It was coming back from China with a cargo valued more as 2.000.000 francs and destined towards London. The cargo included 68 chests with several merchandise, 25,800 chests with tea and 245 chests with ginger. It stranded in the night of 11-12 November at Merlimont 7 miles west of Boulogne and the next morning was no trace of the wreck to be found. Of the 116 men on board namely 74 British, 20 Chinese and 22 Dutch were just six survivors. According to a letter written at the place of the disaster were already 1,000 chests with tea found and still more seen floating. The ships’ carpenter who was the only surviving European (the other five were Lascars) said that she was stranded at ebb-tide, cracked shortly afterwards and that the emerging high tide all the wreck wood dispersed so making it unable for the castaways to use it. The Reliance belonged to Tornlin and Company of London and the cargo consisted of 135 parts belonging to eighty separate companies at London.