... THE GREATEST SHIP IN THE WORLD. On Saturday the new Atlantic liner Oceanic made her first appearance in the Mersey. In her Ireland has produced and England possesses the greatest ship in the world she restores to us a distinction to which we had grown ...

... wrought by the storm, which was accompanied by a huge tidal wave and followed by many great landslides. Many ships are reported to have been lost. The captain of the British man-of- war Alert, following the example of Captain Kane, of the Calliope, at Samoa ...

... that a former mes- age containing the list of those who have lost their lives has somehow miscarried. According to the latest news from Belfast and the Clydo a settlement of the dispute in the ship- building trade is much more probable than it was a few days ...

... nature of the security. Another lost charity had an interesting history. In 1825 three men were fined for hiding property thrown up by the sea belonging to the ship Diamond, which had been wrecked, and the steward of the ship, a Mr Aitken, gave S21 of the ...

... aboard your ships, he snid to his captains. I will lash the tiller of the fire- ship, and mind you follow her. Follow her-a dummy ship A lire-ship they cried. Aye! Can you not see that in the gloom the Spanish dogs will fake her for a fighting ...

... so the Family was augmented. So great was Walker's success, that in eight months, during which his cruise lasted, the ships took two hundred and twenty thousand pounds' worth of prizes, and did not lose one man from the Royal Family. This period ...

... larger quantity was in the ship's hold. None of the people on the quay or in the shipping had the least suspicion of danger. There were three explosions, it is said, the first of a quantity of. petroleum, the second of the ship's boilers, and the third ...

... the cargo and landed nine loads before the tide returned and reached the ship, when as a gale of wind was blowing the vessel became a total wreck and the remainder of the cargo lost in the r sea. If Lloyds agent at Aberystwyth only knew on Monday afternoon ...

... all was lost-big vessel a wreck, his men decimated, rushed aft amid the bullet-storm, and hauled down the English ensign from the peak. The Serapis had surrendered! Jones at once bade his men to cease firing, and directed them to save the ship if possible ...

... but the latter preferred to cut her trawl ropes and steam away rather than surrender to the Queen's ship. The Cockchafer started in pursuit, but lost some time through the necessity of picking up the boats which had been dispatched to the trawlei\ The ...

... otherwise. An instruc- tive return of the 1086 of life n t sea for last year is j uet issued, and I think the tigurefl will show my ship- owning colleagues that they exaggerate the cost to themselves of the liability for loss of life. During the 12 months only ...

... run away before the action began. All these ships were Martinico men and heavily laden. The enemy lost heavily, while the Boscawen owing to her defences, hod only one man killed and seven wounded. The ships being so injured Captain Walker sailed for King ...