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AMERICAN SHIPWRECKS

... whole number of vessels lost was 442. Of these there were- Ships and barques . 74 Sloops 16 Brigs 124 Steam Boats .. 9 Schooners 187 Unknown . .. 32 Of these there were lost towards the close of ...

Published: Friday 08 May 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 945 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LOSS of St. GEORGE, DEFENCE, HERO, &c

... crew had been saved. The ship was upwards of S00 fathoms from the lamlr The six men saved out of the Defence have, on examination, declaresf, that the lirst cause of this misfortitne was the St. 0 eorge havitig last mtonth lost her masts ii, a gale of ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1812
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21

... ftrigte and Brazen ship of' war, were disulasted in a hurricane on the t)thi antl 20tth Angnst, anti driven on shore near Newv Orleans. About 100 vessels were supposed to have suffered dlamage. Wt e have a list orf thl ships lost in the dreadful hurricane ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1812
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 601 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DREADFUL HURRICANE OFF THE MAURITIUS

... if AN INDIAIaIAN AND TWO EMIGRANT SHIPS LOST.- I a MIltACULOUS PRESERIVATION OF fOUR HUNDRED the LIVES. WoTHIN the I Dt three or four days the sulbjoined inteltlgenne athas be e reeeived at Lloyd's, anso iocinog a lost fearful storm OD haviny occurred ...

Published: Friday 03 May 1844
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 977 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE SOUTHERN WHALE FISHING

... the averagecost of each ship (in- eluding insarance), in the first instance, at £8,006, and that re of their successive re-equipmente at £5,000, the aggregate capital invested will have been £13,348,000. The number of ships lost has been 130 ; of those ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1848
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1140 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

POSTSCRIPT

... f the lit ult. 18 Greek vessels, 3 English, and a great e number of Austrian, Sardinian, and Neapolitan vessels were lost. Seven ships had gone down in the BosphorUs. Mr. W. Tooke has sent in his resigilation of the e office of Treasurer for the Society ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1841
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1789 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ST. NICHOLAS'S CHURCH

... machine, with which he tndertakes to explore Ithe bottoin of the sea, for the purpose of recovertig the cargoes, &c. of ships lost. His machine *vas first construsete'i sii li9i, andI the experiments he then made on the csast, andt the river Seine, e ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1810
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1213 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES OF MERCHANT VESSELS

... their changes, and of still greater that he should cros be able to ascertain the position of his ship at any time. It once men happened to him to meet a ship, a whaler, seven or eight degrees I out ii her longitude. On. his asking the captain how this came ...

Published: Friday 05 August 1842
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1846 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

POLAND'S REGENERATION

... which she capsized and instantly sank, e carrying with her 115persons,every soul of whom y was lost. Seventeen of the crew isanaged to laylhold of one of the ship's cutters, which, as the vessel went down, floated over the deck, and saved them. They endured ...

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, March 24

... rimtres, ill w*vich the Jfiva lost 60 killed, and l01 (otl)craccountissay l70) wounde(l. Anrorig ihie latter, we lainent to say, was tile gallant Coamilandler of tih Java, and;, it is added, mor- tally. 'iTe Americans lost hine kiled and 25 uoirnded. -The ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1813
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1398 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DREADFUL HURRICANE OFF THE MAURITIUS

... DREADFUL HURRICANE OFF THE MAU. RITIUS. AN INDIAN AND TWO EMIGRANT SHIPS LOST. Within the last three or four days the subjoined intelligence has been received at Lloyd's, announcing a most fearful storm having occurred in the month of January last, off ...

THE MERCURY

... PARiny did; anid possibly one of these adveistitroiss vessels may have picked up CAi rA. I Ross andt his crew, who have lost their ships. The narrative of the voyagers, whit have spent three winters lockesi up it thick- ribbed ice ant polar night, will doubtless ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1833
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2930 | Page: 5 | Tags: News