... last port she touehed at was lavAnnall, where she shipped a valuable cargo. On her departure, the intention of the commander was to proceed direct to Sweden. On the morning of the lot of May, when the ship was a head of the coastof Matantais, she encountered ...

... the 8d July, in conse- quence' The Blenheitn man, of war was. given' up for lost. The following ships sailed fronv St Helenas, the 27th Junei, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Antelope-~-.all homeward-bound-: - Lady Jane Dundas, Hugh Inglis,Bengal, Lord ...

... dreadful battle of the Nile, five of our line of battle b ships lost only 18 killed, and less than 50 wounded. I IAt Trafalgar ten of our 74 gun ships, in divisions of Ifive each, respectively lost only 19, and 16 men killed, hi Each division suffering less ...

... -All the Spanish vessels fought with the utmost bra- very; but I am still at a loss to comprehend how it was that we lost the two ships that are missing. Nevertheless, your excellency will perceive, that.the two disabled vessels might fall into the enemiay's ...

... Grenncck, her husband intending to be down with his ship on the following morning. It appears that itbouthalf an hour before the vessel's hoar of departing, the captain on going across a tier of ships, lost his footing, and was precipitated into the water ...

... 'well discovered the ship, they were. under her lbows,.ulnable to make themselves heard ; the foam of'the sea, caused by the ship's veloiity, ?? filled the boat; opportunity just ?? for thie Captainl an'd Crew to cling to tlle ship'sq'side, 'When the boit ...

... r fate of two ships, used as transports for troops, the one from E Australia, and the other from England; they had been wrecked a side by side on the Andaman Islands. They were the Runnymede and Briton, No lives were lost; but the ships were fairly sent ...

... 'I lie first is, the number of veais she must be employeed in building ships to make her naval cstablisliictimt (equal even to what it was, and the second is thc nuniner of ships necessary to be bluilt in order to enable her to enter into a competition ...

... 1886, the average . of ships lost yearly was (310; and during the years 1841 and 1842, 611, includ- ; ing missing ships. TIme value of the 610 I shiles and cargoes being estimated at £2,562,000, . amlld the value of tie 611 ships and cargoes being r£ 2 ...

... increasing at a rapid rate, the number of ?? ships lost in 1S44 had decreased to 517; in 1845, 539; and af in 1846, when the number of ships belonging to Great e Britain and its dependencies was 32,000, the number lost or was 537._-Meivcastle Guardian. so M ...

... many vessels from this country cl during the late war in China, was a splendid sl ship, the Marion, chartered by the East m India Company, she being the head-quarter vi ship, and having on board Sir Hugh Gough and n Staff. On the 9th of June 1842, while ...

... there were 133 persons on bhard. a The last port she touched at was Havannah, where she shipped ti a valuable cargo. Oa the morning of the Ist of Hay, where the tl ship was ahead of the coast of Mlatanzas, she encounterenl one of the fiercest hurricanes ...