... FINDING OF TWO LOST SHIPS SUPPOSED RECOVERY OF £lô5,OOO. Amongst the vessels lost in the memorable cyclone that swept over the Bay of Bengal in 1867 were the steamer Thunderer and the ship Morayshire. Search was pro- fessed to be made for these and other ...

... tained. Among the vessels wrecked were the British ships Elvina, Douglas Castle, and Lyn- ton. The csew of the last-named vessel were drowned. The following vessels were also lost:— The Norwegian ships Helden, Karnau, and Blanche the Ocean (French), and ...

... defendant had soot ships to sea in an unfit state, and in consequence had within three years lost twelve ships and upwards of 100 human lives. Mr. Plimsoll in his affidavit states that it was necessary, in respect of certain ships, that he should have ...

... Many shipowners are sending their ships to the North, under the apprehension that it will be impossible to get them loaded here. One broker told us yesterday that his friends (shipowners abroad) have sent five large ships to the north to load, that, but ...

... meetings referred almost exclusively to the treatment of sailors on ship- board. At one, he stated that he intended to publish the death register, with the namea of the owners of ships lost, and the acn vho ii- j.i .,va = ...

... formation of a fun 1 for the relief of the widows and orphans of seamen whose lives might have beea lost whilst serving on board any of Her Majesty's ships lost under excep- tional circumstances, such as attended the cases of the Captain, tho Bury dice, and ...

... were upon them, and attacking with impetuosity, speedily engaged all the war ships n 1L estuary. The Japanese had the advantage n the weather berth, and so manoeuvred their ships that both Chinese warships and transports had to fight it out. FOUNDERING OF ...

... fair representation of American opinion am»ng mode- rate people. The gist of the article is as fol- lows :— Men who lost their ships during the war learning that England is ready to pay the cash, some of them are not unnaturally anxious to get 'the ...

... lower part of Now- port. Two uninsured ships lost away at sea, as the rhyme has it, and worth appeared to be the beginning of tho firm's troubles, and then in the case of another barque, the Governor, also lost, the insurance company successfully evaded ...

... present year, it is staked, that a farmer rushed into the Neath Cattle Market exclaiming, A man did lost two ships (sheep), not ships on sea, but ships on land; two strips goch on leg and Jonathan Maddock (the letter J.M.) on back. A Welsh traveller who ...

... the number of seamen lost and an increase of 357 in the number of passengers lost as compared with the average for the fifteen years. It is, how- ever, worth noting- that of the 590 passengers lost in 1890-91 no less than 555 were lost in one vessel, the ...

... Egbert in 838. They burnt St. David's again in 993. In attacks against Swansea, in 877, it is recorded that the Danes lost 120 ships by storm. The black host captured and held to ransom the Bishop of Llandaff, but was bought off. They killed a King of ...