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THE SHIPPING DISASTERS IN THE WHITE SEA

... Archangel, dated Saturday, 12 o'clock, announces that the Ashford had arrived with 3 crews of the lost ships, and 20 more crews wore saved, and were board incoming ships. - ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1867
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 101 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

GREAT SHIPPING DISASTER IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN

... GREAT SHIPPING DISASTER IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN. TO-DAY S TELEGRAMS LOSS OF AN AMERICAN WHALING FLEET. New York, Sunday. The ice has closed in 33 vessels in the Arctic Ocean. The whaling fleet and several ships have been sunk, and the remainder have been ...

Published: Monday 06 November 1871
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SHIPPING DISASTERS IN THE WHITE SEA

... SHIPPING DISASTERS IN THE WHITE SEA. • The Admiralty have decided to telegraph the Archangel to send steamer thence the assistance of ships lost or abandoned in the White Sea. ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1867
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 30 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VESSELS LOST AT SEA

... 149, tlie British Colonies lost ships, aggregating 14.528. a total percentage £ -l* as compared with the total number owned, ana oi compared with the total tonnage. Out nearly double the number of ships, United Kingdom lost only .93 per cent of the total ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1893
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

have, however, only to go back to November 26th, 1708, for The Storm, which took Defoe, the author of

... beginning of time. A statement published at Paris represented 800 ships and 80,000 lives lost on the coast of Britain, but Defoe thought these figures too high. The royal navy lost 13 ships and nearly 1,500 men; and Winstanley's Eddystone Lighthouse was ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1888
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE DISASTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS

... horae-power of the ship; the number of lives lost; tbe approximate value of the ship, if lost; or, if repaired, the cost of the repairs; and the finding of the court-martial or court of inquiry. During these twelve years five ships have ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1873
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 326 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MISSING SHIPS

... described wrecks, witti their 2,100 lives lost, British ships disappeared, clean gone, wiped out like a grease ,iot, never heard after leaving port; and this in one year's records. With the ISO missing ships there are also 2,381 mussing men—a good many ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1875
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CASUALTIES TO COAL-LADEN SHIPS

... CASUALTIES TO COAL-LADEN SHIPS. A return was issued yesterday giving list of all coalladen vessels bound from the United Kingdom which have been burnt or reported missing between July and Jiune, 1874. The number of ships lost during tbe time mentioned ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1875
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LOSSES IN THE WHITE SEA

... authenic : —The total number ships, British and foreign, abandoned was 64, aud of these 14 were again recovered, that the total number of vessels totally lost is fifty. Of the lost ships eighteen were British, and only one British ship was ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1867
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1113 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE ACTION AGAINST MR. PLIMSOLL BY MR. GOURLEY, M.P

... the plaintiff had sent ships to sea in an unfit state, and in consequence had within three years lost 12 ships, and upwards of 100 human lives. Mr. Plimsoll, in his affidavit, stated that it was necessary m respect of certain ships that he should have the ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1873
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 320 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE WEST INDIA. HURRICANE

... of the Rhone steamer, all of whom are believed to have been _ lost, The total is 132. To-morrow, if all had been well, the Rhone would have arrived here. By the loss of life on board that ship and the Wye probably 300 women and children in Southamp- ton ...

Published: Monday 11 November 1867
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 185 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOSS OF LIFE AT SEA

... number of vessels lost which had certificates from the Board of Trade at the time of their being lost, during ths same period, was 68, all steamers, and the number of lives lost was 728, of whom 339 were passengers. The number of ships lost ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1884
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 4 | Tags: none