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FEARFUL STORM, EIGHT SHIPS WRECKED, DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE

... of saving the lives of lhe missing, or at any ratc of recovering the dead. The annexed is a statement of the ships lost:- 'The British ship Benjamin Elkins, a total w'reck, and abandoned; crew ?? Le Feuvre (mate), Thomas Martin (seaman), and lehier Colins ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 975 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF NAPOLEON I

... Euglish Admiral was chased a second time without fighting ; that the capture of two] Spanish ships u-as not known on account of the thick fog; that these two ships were driven to leew-ard during the night ; andi that, beving damaged in thdir rigging, they ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1916 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LATER FROM AMERICA

... rence, accompanied by snowstorms. Several marine disasters are reported. L, The ship Minnie Dawson went ashore at the lighthouse at Father Point. One life lost. VI The ships Spartan, Marion, and Salonia are all reported ashore on the coast. It In the Canadian ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2015 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE STORM

... a The ship Albion, 1245 tons burden,' by Messrs t W. Tapscott and Co., Liverpool, from New York to Liverpool, with general cargo, totally wrecked near Stromness Harbour ; eleven lives lost. Estimated value of ship and cargo, £40,000. The ship Attila ...

Published: Thursday 18 January 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3134 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SIR CHARLES NAPIER — REPORT OF GENERAL JONES—THE ADMIRALTY

... have brought it to a successful termination, the troops would have been made prisoners, and probably half a dozen of the ships lost; this would have made rather a bad finish to the first campaign in the Baltic. This, It is quite true surely, is a difference ...

Published: Friday 14 September 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3621 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... :Some further details ha'e reached of the ter- rible hurricane and flood at Calcutta. A list isb given of thirty ships lost a 'feared lost, besides YN a crowd of others ashore or upset in doek. r Lloyd'. agent says tiat tce lowest -estimQbet gr that ...

Published: Wednesday 09 November 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3537 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... political position. vei What are the further reforms proposed ? To div wo make enemies' goods in enemies' ships as free as aii neutral goods in neutral ships, and to put a stop we to commercial blockades. These are Mr Cob- tih den's propositions. Taking up the ...

Published: Friday 12 December 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5753 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

B E T H L E H E M

... Friday.-Intelligence bas reached here to-day, which leaves no doubt that another large north country ship has been wrecked, and that all hands are lost. In the last week of November, the barque Mary Moncaster sailed from the Tyne for the coast of Spain ...

Published: Monday 04 January 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4072 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... April 1857, to last Jarnuary. their ships were bebied time in reaching Melbornr | 43 days, and once during that time one of th ir ships arrived a day before its time. During that period also the Company's ships lost in leaving Melbourne fir Suez 64 days ...

Published: Saturday 14 August 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4131 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

England

... great difficulty that the lives of the crew were saved. were nigh being driven ashore on the Goodwins. Upwards of a dozen ships lost their cables, spars, &c., and Off Dunge- ness, New Romney, and Rye, four vessels, the Laurel of Whit- by, the Thomas and ...

Published: Monday 11 October 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5004 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Home Intelligence

... to the ground. So ends the first act. In the second we are trans- ported to the Arctic regions. The adventurers have lost their two ships, and are living in huts which they have constructed. Their resources are nearly ex- hausted; and, as a last effort ...

Published: Thursday 08 January 1857
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5349 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Provincial Intelligence

... proper supply of experienced suitable bauds for the trade. The Queen, it is reported, lost no fewer than six whales in one day through bungling. and many ships lost numbers fromu the same cause. SELKIRK AND GALASHIELs RAILWAY-SUNDAY TRAINS.-As a meeting ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5456 | Page: 3 | Tags: News