Gould Arthur Lucas, Irish soldier and survivor of , fl. 1830s – 19 May 1914 A son of the

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Edward Lucas of Castle Shane,

County Monaghan County Monaghan ( ; ga, Contae Mhuineacháin) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Ulster and is part of Border strategic planning area of the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Monaghan. Monaghan County Cou ...

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, Lucas was an

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at time of the sinking of . Ensign Lucas and Lieutenant Girardot, were on watch together the night of the wreck. Both heard the night orders given to the naval officer of the watch; Lucas was afterwards always under the impression that a small grass fire high on the shore at

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misled this officer into thinking it was the lighthouse at Cape Agulha. After the ship was breached, Lucas helped supervise the evacuation of the women and children in the ship's boat during the sinking of . Three weeks after the wreck, he posted home "an account of his experience which is of great interest. The narrative written while the circumstances were fresh in its author's memory gives us a vivid picture of the scene on that terrible night in February 1852." Lucas retired as a captain in 1859, subsequently serving as a

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. Prior to his retirement to England in 1897, he also served as

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at Durban. He was still alive in 1902 but died in 1914.

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