Shipwreck Lowestoft

‘On Mr Loudon’s ship, the passengers looked at each other and at the tumultuous sea. Always practical, he urged them to assemble lengths of rope and fragments of sailcloth. He knew how to protect haystacks with these materials and believed they could provide some shelter. The passengers began tying themselves to the masts and shrouds. A crowd gathered on the shore, watching and fearing.’ This is a quote from The Claudians: gardens, landscapes, reason and faith: John Claudius Loudon and Claudius Buchanan, Tom Turner (Kindle, 2024).

More about Loudon’s second voyage from Edinburgh to London

Jane Loudon wrote that ‘This was in 1805; and the same year he returned to England. On this second voyage to London, he was compelled by stress of weather to land at Lowestoffe; and he took such a disgust at the sea, that he never afterwards travelled by it, if it was possible to go by land. He now resumed his labours as a landscape-gardener; and his Journal is filled with the observations he made, and the ideas that suggested themselves of improvements, on all he saw.’