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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

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 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

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

SHIPPING DISASTERS

... Sunderland for London. They were saved by the smack Rose. SHIPWRECKED SAILORS. More than 100 sailors belonging to lost or disabled ships have been received into the Great Yarmouth Sailors' Home since Monday last. STRUCK liy I.IGHTNINO. During the squall ...

Published: Friday 13 December 1872
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 282 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OUR SEAMEN

... suspicion ol —There ia one man Yarmouth who has .been heard te say that he does not care a how *many lives lost in his ships provided his ships , are insured. There was also a man of this class 'who died some time ago whose ooffin was followed tbe by ...

Published: Tuesday 04 August 1874
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

[NARROW ESCAPE OF A LONDON STEAMER

... bad one, and the commander of the Elbe advised Captain Robinson to abandon his sinking ship. On the following morning a violent snowstorm came on and the ships lost sight of each other. Captain Robinson, however, stuck to his steamer, and finding it impossible ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1893
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LAST WEEK’S WRECKS

... during the week ended 18th inst., and nine foreign, the greater number belonging to Norway and Sweden; also three French ships lost at Iceland, making the total number thirteen, being eight more than the previous week. Three foreign vessels foundered; ...

Published: Thursday 21 May 1891
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 331 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Further efforts will be made protect merchant seamen from unnecessary risk on the high seas, and the good work with

... was reported. The following, however, taking the same dates, shows the number of ships lost and the accompanying loss of life: —At home, 13 vessels foundered and 21 were lost from other causes, the loss of life being 89; a court of inquiry was formed in ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1054 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A BOY’S BEGGING PETITION BUSINESS

... of Fiji and Navigators Islands) Tweive vessels are Known to have been lost, and out of their crews 40 persons were drowned. Among British ships lost were the Kingfisher, Helena Davies, Notero, Ayr- shire, and Lacknaw At (Fiji group) 20 houses were blown ...

Published: Monday 30 March 1891
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 610 | Page: 2 | Tags: none