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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

... Good Hope.—Ten Ships Lost. —The mail steamer Phopbc, which arrived at Portsmouth on Friday, brought advices from the Cape of Good Hope, to the effect that a fearful storm had prevailed off the coast, and that no less than ten first-class ships were completely ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1859
Newspaper: Whitehaven News
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 5295 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

'ME WIGTON AD

... aggregate Unitive of 9,300 tons, all being British stamen. Total tonnage lost for the weak 10,766 tons • total number of the, Met and missing Approximate . value of property lost, 027,000, ships being estimated at E 127,000, and produce at g900,C00, including ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1882
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 8242 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A.KPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... why ehonl.l we not be interested In everything that relates to our ships, and fester everything t^ at tends to their improvement? Putting wee out of the question, we lost 00 war ships and 11,000 men In nine years, solely because we weir, content with ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1862
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 5845 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1889. THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S

... that half the number of ships lost at sea were caused by overloading. Fourteen years ago a sham load line was adopted, and in that period over six thousand lives had been lost by overloading. Out of nearly nine thousand ships only twenty-three hundred ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1889
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5816 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... There bave been a nomber of ships lost this spring among the ice My fingers are frost bitten. T have no clothes. All [saved was the trousers and sbirt I had on, for 1 was io bed wheo the struck the ice. The chronometer and ship’s payers were saved, but that ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1861
Newspaper: Carlisle Patriot
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 8243 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOW THE SHIP WAS LOST

... HOW THE SHIP WAS LOST. A Jersey correspondent states that he learns from a trustworthy source, and it will be borne out by surviving offiers and members of the crew of the Stella at the official inquiry, that the steamer did not strike on a rock in the ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1899
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BRITISH SHIP LOST

... BRITISH SHIP LOST A telegram from Lloyd's agont at Wellington. N.Z., dated April 31, twenty minutes, to two p.m., states that the British ship Zuteam has been wrecked and totally lost, ship and cargo, at Palliser. Nine persona only Paved. MR ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1897
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SHIPS AND LIVES LOST

... SHIPS AND LIVES LOST. Early on Sunday morning the steamer Zephyr foundered off Ilfracombe during • heavy gale, and it is feared that 11 of her crew perished. About 3 a.m. the vessel sprang leak, and a heavy sea washed away the skylight, filling the ugine-room ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1889
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A SHIP LOST

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Published: Friday 01 April 1887
Newspaper: Carlisle Journal
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 16 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A LOST TREASURE SHIP

... A LOST TREASURE SHIP. With the consent of the Turkish Government, some Greek divers began investigations a short time ago at the bottom of the em neer Chico, where, in 1770, at the battle of Chem* the Turkish fleet was totallydestroyed, sod the Russian ...

Published: Tuesday 11 July 1899
Newspaper: Penrith Observer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A WHITEHAVES SHIP LOST

... A WHITEHAVEN SHIP LAIST Information received from Punta Del Cada, Straits of Magellan, states that the British brigantine Bootle has been lost. All hands saved. The Bootle, which left Cardiff on Ootober 18th Last, was an iron brigantine of 293 tons register ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1898
Newspaper: Carlisle Journal
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A WHITEHAVEN SHIP LOST

... A WHITEHAVEN SHIP LOST. Information received from Punta Del Gada, Straits of Magellan, states that the British brigantine Bootle has been lost. All hands saved. The Bootle, which left Cardiff on October 18th last, was au iron Wigantine of 293 tons register ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1898
Newspaper: Workington Star
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 3 | Tags: none