Welsh Sailor's Heroic Shipwreck

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Able Seaman Thomas Lewis

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Twm Pen-Stryd: Welsh sailor's heroic role in Cospatrick shipwreck

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Able Seaman Thomas Lewis became the hero of one of the most grisly shipwrecks in British maritime history.

Twm Pen-Stryd , as he was known locally, from Moelfre on Anglesey , was serving onboard the Cospatrick , transporting emigrant labourers and cargo to New Zealand .

All but three of the 479 passengers and crew lost their lives in the 1874 shipwreck.

Had it not been for Twm 's experience, not even those survivors would have made it back to Britain .

With just a handful still alive, Twm suggested they had to drink blood and eat the livers of those who had already died.

Two of the five still alive at that point died on their way to St Helena , in the middle of the Atlantic .

Twm, MacDonald and Cotter eventually made it back to Britain on New Year's Eve 1874.

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