This story apty describes a 19thC Cornish woman's seeing an apparition of her husband's death at sea, a week away from home, at the time, to the hour, of his actual death.

As might be expected in a county such as Cornwall, where those who were not engaged in mining have so long taken to the sea for their livlihood, kindred stories are related of the appearance of sailors to their friends at the hour of death. Some seventy years ago a seaman, whose home was in the parish of Feok, sailed out of Falmouth in a vessel trading with the Spanish ports. One evening about a week after his departure, his wife began to feel unusually agitated about her husband, and at length, on going upstairs, she heard as it were a sudden gale spring up, and the sound of rushing waters. Looking out of the window into the garden she beheld her husband being carried off the ship by a great wave; another wave followed and engulfed him, and she saw him no more. In due course she received a letter from the captain informing her that her husband had been washed overboard during a gale, and had been drowned. The letter stated not only the day but the hour of the disaster, which exactly corresponded with the time she had seen the apparition. This sory which was told to the writer by Mr Charles Hoare, of Madron, is representative of many others which, as he very properly says, 'are based on facts and related by those who could have no possible desire of seeing the apparitions which they describe.'

The quote at the end that this story is based on fact and from a person who had no desire to see the apparition of death lends credence to the story.