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LOSS OF THE WILLIAM ALDAM AND WILLIAM BECKETT STEAMERS

... had not full confidence. The owners A were all registered on the ship's register at her Majesty's Customs, as proprietors to the extent of their respective la shares, under the Shipping Act, and not, as supposed, con- stituted a joint-stock company. The ...

Published: Thursday 27 November 1856
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 693 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... of owners who, having lost their ships in the storm, a have invested their insuranee moneys in newv bottoms, take, d the case of a worthy,. well-to-do old gentleman, entertaining T s8 a friend with lametton vr h ruin of the shipping t ), interest, when ...

Published: Tuesday 06 December 1859
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2498 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

BURNING OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP

... EMIGRANT SHIP. nk- By the arrival of the G~eneral Steam Navigation try. Company's steamer, .Sir Edward Bankls, Ciaptain Granit,l from Havre, on Sunday evening, which brough t over tisree £ of the ossrvivors of thre St. Gcoraqc emigrant ship, we have P' ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1853
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2963 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LOSS OF THE ARCTIC STEAM-SHIP

... to IC I, io it i-I ar ii If LI r 0 f- 300 TO 400 PERSONS LOST. Another terrible disaster has befallen a steam vessel sailiug betweca Liverpool acd Aslicrica. The United States snail steam-ship Arctic, Captaioi J. C. Luce, was I totally lnst oi Wednsseday ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1854
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3907 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR SHIPPING AND ITS PROSPECTS

... OUR SHIPPING AND ITS PROSPECTS. Mn. W. S. LINDBAsY, one of the lawest ship - owners in the kingdom, who earnestly opposed the as repeal of the NavigationLaws, has sinco their repeal di arrived at the conviction that that measure is quite pi irrevocable ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1851
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1151 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

DESTRUCTION OF A SHIP BY FIRE

... bruised silk between the ship's side and the boat, Lost some of his as nc6 back teeth, and his lower jaw nearly broken. not iral Alexander Catlisle, wilo was working his passage to surl Glasgow, missed the boat in jumpingfrom the ship, and fell of I overboard ...

Published: Tuesday 26 January 1858
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1438 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OSS OF A TYNE SHIP AND NINE HANDS

... ; LOSS OF A TYNE SHIP AND NINE HANDS. Tiiesday's Northern Express says :-A Intelligence .reached Shields yesterday morning of the loss of the ship Harvey, belonging to Mr. Donkin, of North Shields, on the coast of Newfoundland, on her way from Quebee ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1859
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 600 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MASSACRE OF THE CREWS OF TWO ENGLISH SHIPS

... MASSACRE OF THE CREWS OF TWO ENGLISH SHIPS. L Advices were received at Lloyd's, on Thursday, communicating the details of two most frightful events at sea-the massacre of the commanders and portone of the crews of the British ablipn iiclarf, of London ...

Published: Saturday 20 March 1852
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1110 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WRECK OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT SHIP PALLAS

... WRECK OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT SHIP PALLAS. SEVENTY-TWO LIVES LOST. The -Yew York Hffr -l, of the 17th instant, has the folloWing:- By telegraph from Halifax we are informed of the total wreck of the ship Pallas, bound from Cork for Quebec,. at St. Paul's ...

Published: Tuesday 01 July 1856
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2703 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EXPLOSION AT WASHINGTON OLD COLLIERY, NEAR GATESHEAD.—FOUR LIVES LOST

... IEXPLOSION AT WASHINGTON OLD COLLIERY, NEAR GATESHEAD.-FOUR LIVES LOST. On Saturday morning, between five ~and six: 0'c1oek, au explosion, attended with the loss of friur lives, 'day Itook place at Washington Old Colliary, about six miles fromt Coriem ...

Published: Tuesday 25 October 1859
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2460 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE STORM.—LOSS OF EMIGRANT SHIPS— GREAT SACRIFICE OF LIFE

... lbs craw, o1 'shom 911 cat were lost. Tue carpenter. a nataive of Limerick, nasaied Finn, lust 'Cot this life io endeavouring ho saive Site passasgers. The crow con- Listed of 14 men. a r O iesame night anotitar ship, laden with emigranis. hound for ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2650 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

WONDERFUL, PRESERVATION OF A BURNING SHIP, AND SUBSEQUENT VOYAGE

... that ,ad of without quittiog~the ship, though she was burning furiously xn ay in a heavy gale of wind sixteen hours. the whole of- her other after part being burnt out to a shell. biect, The Sarah Sands was an iron ship, upwards of 2,000 tons mnay burden ...

Published: Thursday 31 December 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1877 | Page: 1 | Tags: News