... For miles, as far as we could see, was nothing but ice and snow, and we had not b-en at anchor long before three of the ships lost their anchors anid a good deal of their chain cable -anchors from 60 cwt. ; ours weighed 96 cwt., with chains as thick as ...

... i. compelled to abandon their ships, and that they g perished in an attempt to reach the Hudson's Bay y settlements. a The next question that suggests itself is, when or andwhere were they obliged to abandon their ships P a, In what year did they tread ...

... to be sought for 1855. This is the boasted able administration of Sir James Graham ; the experience of 1854 has been lost. The ships last year drew too much water: this year they are to go again, accompanied by gun- boats, bomb ketches, and last, though ...

... English have ma, n lready lost several ships, are dying of cho a Gra, and hav o to deal with revolted troops in Int . Bri While writing, the oflicial Dje ride has been lasl brought in to me with the statement that we ab have lost 4,000 mon at Rainleh. If ...

... construction of wooden ships, and commence building iron. plated ships. What then was to become of the existing stock in trade ? Was it all to be lost ? He (Lord Harldwicke) would say-No, not a bit of it should be lost. The large ships we ...

... drowned On the last page we see what it all means. In those four years the country lost 1,266 ships, and, with them, 8,661 lives. If wD want to know how many were lost in the years be- fore, we may turn to 0 2,626, of which, it seems, this interesting ...

... officers of her Majesty's ships, whom he was ordered b to consult-in the face of circumstances inducing a tbe belief that remaining out another sear would tend toclearup the fate of the missing-before :Capt. v Kellett with his ships had returned from Melville ...

... these drownings occurred in two coolia ships. As is customary, the return includes in the years record auylives or vessels lost in previous 'yedirs but subsequently reported, and excludes all lives'and vessels' lost during the year but not of6kci ly'ireported ...

... TELEORArH.) MAIRSEILLES, SUNDAY, MAY 28. The Indian mail arrived ihere at eight o'clock this morning. SHIPS LOST. 'The Dundee, of Dundee, Scott, has been lost in Fort Fairy, Victoria. The Luslun of Glasgow, Bruce, has also been Icat in the same place. AMERICA ...

... years endng June, 1887, not fewer, than 6,08 lives were lost in missig ships alone. Yet the Government would not insist upon a ?? load-line, but Mequired their offlicers merely by looking at a ship to say whether she was overloaded or not. Beyond this the ...

... the number lost in vesselt to which Mr. Plimsoll's remedies would ?? was 2,179. They. had not, therefore, to deal with Mr. limsoll's 6,927 men, nor the Tie' 6,00, but 2,179, of whoml,ll were lost in classed ships, and only 1,068 were lost in the ecoasting ...

... and in the East Indies slow fever. The decomposition of the coal pollutes the atmosphere. The Royal Mail Company have lost nearly 20 ships, worth 2,000,0001. sterling, during the 22years they have carried on the mail serviee. The service was originally a ...