Taken from he Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser,
dated 16th December 1853.
“The Death at Calcutta, of liver complaint, aged 27, Mr
Joseph Gronnow, of H.C.S.F. Moozuffer, and late of St. David’s Parish, deeply
regretted.
Joseph is possibly the son of Joseph & Martha Gronow of Cylch Mawr, St. Davids. Pembrokeshire.
A bit of background information about the “Moozuffer” can be
found from an Auction lot in Christies, London dated 18-19th June
1996 Lot 5641.
(29 July) 1852 Second Burmese War letter headed "From Bombr B. Rodgers...On
Board the H.C.S.F. Moozuffer", addressed to Sussex and countersigned by
the Commanding Officer and showing transit marks including handstruck
"2". Rather stained and reinforced internally, interesting contents
include.
"Immediately I
reached Bombay from Calcutta, I was sent on Board the Company's Steam Frigate
'Moozuffer', fitting out for the Burmese Empire or the Rangoon War. The fleet
left Bombay on 24th February, sailed to Madras, and joining some more shipping
continued sailing to Rangoon, which we reached on the 11th April, which was
Easter Sunday. As we passed by at the hour of half past nine, the ship I belong
to opened fire with her first pivot Sixty-Eight pound gun, and was continued by
the Fleet. We fired for better than 2 hours and a half when the word
"Cease Fire" was given. There was afterwards a steady firing kept up
from the guns of each ship till the next morning, when the troops landed and
stormed the fortifications. It lasted then three days, four days from the time
we first commenced. There were several small places taken afterwards till we
proceeded to a place called Bassein, where we sailed in about three, and the
Action commenced, soldiers on one side and sailors on the other. They took the
place about eight. There are but two places more to take, Prome and Ava, the
principle places."
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