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THE TAXATION OF THE LOWER CLASSES

... Ringdom-British ships lost, 1,668; tonnage, 413,0CO; lives lost, 030. On the Coasts of British Posses. Eicna ?? ships lost, 315; tonnage, 9i,470; lives loot, 308. On the Coasts of Foreign Countries- Bit~ish slirs losb, 660; tonnage, 226,868; ...

Published: Monday 03 February 1873
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1938 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PREVENTIBLE DISASTERS AT SEA

... chosen where the ship could be lost end the crew saved, and this perhaps accounted for the fact that, while 2,000 ships were lost, there were rather lessthan 1,000 lives lost. One owner lost ten ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1873
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3010 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE WRECK REGISTER AND CHART FOR 1871

... 1,927 ships, 1,16,i3 are known to have been ships belonging to Great Britain and its dependencies, with British certifi- catts (f registry, and 230 are known to have been ships belonging to foreign countries and States. Of the remaining 29 ships, the country ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1872
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2213 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS

... hands a number of vessel. The loss of life is very great, it being estimated that at leaet lO men have peished in *v the lost ships. The following ate lthe principal ones, tl viz. :-Stcamei Colombo, of and from Hal[ to New York, cl crew aboat 60 men; steamer ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1877
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3570 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... the 12th Lancers in Leeds, and if so, whether it is intended to send the regiment to take part in the autumn manoeuvres? a SHIPS LOST AT SEA. In reply to Mr. Aid. LUSE (Finabury), Mr. FORTESCUE (President of the Board of Trade) 5 said it was not the case ...

Published: Friday 11 July 1873
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4002 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE WRECK REGISTER FOR 1875-76

... those lost in the previous year. Those 778 lives were lost in 171 ships; 121 of them were laden vessels, and 49 were vessels in ballast; 134 of these ships were entirely lost, and 37 sus- tained partial damage. Of the 778 lives ...

Published: Friday 19 October 1877
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4464 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS MERCURY

... y can bring little comfort to e us beside th , painful thought that the brave crew t has been for ever lost. Ships we have in abund- s ance; ships; like the Eurydice, indeed, in super- h abundance. If all that we had to record to-day e were but the loss ...

Published: Tuesday 26 March 1878
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5028 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

DECK LOADING

... mnisinug ships - rnd livos lost th~ereill. Itlthough not ill the total loss of Ijs or total los of propurt y. W olave thlis far spokncn of tie ?? of lifo only. It wvill be remostbered that our original inquiry was with xeferenceto the isruiter of ships lost ...

Published: Monday 17 January 1876
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1386 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE

... the manifold evils resulting from lwant of the supply have been pointed out with almost painful iteration. Not only are ?? ships lost for want of adequate practical seamanship, but many crimes are annually tried in our courts of justice owing te the small ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1876
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1622 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

RESIGNATION OF THE ANTI-VACCINATION GUARDIANS OF KEIGHLEY

... eighteoen miles otl the Start etrlvon, Tpesday' maorpmung by whbich two phips have 1ounhdjrel aimd.fitteu lives been lost. The pqllidlisg 'ships, were, :th' barqiee Robert Melly of Boston, aiept.. li'ruman, and tire 'bar ibi Hulderdflela, of Liverpool, Capi ...

Published: Thursday 14 December 1876
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1797 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE WRECK REGISTER AND CHART FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1873

... Weets cicely lost, and 16 sistaiiced paccticd lamage. Of the 728 lives lost, 81 erero lost in vessels thatt fonderad, 3,10 through vessels in collision, and 122 I~eveses tsscdedr as ?? XomainhiuZ 50.5t her ii as i ; causesr such brof lives lost (179jwerei~ ...

Published: Monday 26 October 1874
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2386 | Page: 4 | Tags: News