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POETRY. THE FLAM BOROUGH PILOTS. The lights revolve—now white, now red— vain; no warning ray is shed From mis ..

... piteous sight! The gentle pilots of the night Are murdered with the morning light? * * * * And, lo! for lack of warning call, Ships lost beneath that white sea-wall, Where now the Flamborough Pilots fall! From the British Worknuin. ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1869
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 205 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Bishoprics London and Durham.—lt lias, we believe, been decided by the cabinet that general measure for ..

... addressed the First Lords of the Treasury, praying for a final and limited search after the relics of the Erebus and Terror—the lost ships in which Franklin and his crews left England. The memorial states that this request is supported by many persons well ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1856
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 939 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LATEST NEWS

... Treaty secures freedom of navigation for all the countries of the world. DREADFUL STORM THE BLACK SEA. Upwahds op Twenty Ships Lost. A telegraphic despatch anuouuces another terrible storm ill the Black Sea, which appears to have been severely felt in ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1856
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 367 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TEA

... realized. We are now daily expectation of several ships arriving China with full cargoes of Tea into the Port of London. Our last advices from Canton state that there was a full supply of Tea on hand for twenty ships, and that many vessels were then waiting to ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1834
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 709 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

with great loss. Another, which was made the night before last, was, however, attended with more disastrous ..

... These below, are the names the ships lost:—H. M. J. Steam er, Prince, struck and blew up iu ten seconds,; ship Resolute, the moment she struck went to pieces; Progress; Kenelworth ; Wild Wave ; and a Maltese Brig. A ship, name unknown, drifted into the ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1855
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1405 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SUMMARY

... of the town. Several roofs were blown off houses, and the sea rose higher then on the day when the Royal Charter was lost. Several ships were injured. A man walking along Grafton-street was killed instantaneously by a chimney-pot which struck him the head ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1868
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1018 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FRANCE

... president to send out a commission of inquiry at Utah. The Sultan steamer has besn burnt near Mobile, and 20 lives lost. The steam ships of the Collins line—the Adriatic, the Baltic, and the Atlantic—were sold at auction on the Ist inst., by order of the ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1858
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1099 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND THE ADMIRALTY. Sir Charles Napier has addressed the following letter to the editor of ..

... attempt on Boulogne in November 1805. He did not weigh difficulties and forestall contingencies, and he lost all his boats, and very nearly lost his ships. Nelson had not those difficulties to contend with either at the Nile or Copenhagen. At the former his ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1855
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1684 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WANTON SACRIFICE OF HUMAN LIVES. the Editor the Kendal Mercury. Sir,—lf any of your readers will take the ..

... Mercury. Sir,—lf any of your readers will take the trouble adding up the number of emigrants and others who have been lost in merchant ships during the last twelve months, they will find even the destruction Waterloo almost sinks into insignificance in comparison ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1850
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1015 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS

... drowned, all of them through vessels foundering at sea, and of whose end very little is known. North and South Shields have lost ten ships' companies in this manner, and the painful fact is that the list is likely to added to. There appears to be little doubt ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1864
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2749 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

APPALLING WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED LIVES LOST

... spare mainyard ; but the ship was now partly Unmanageable from the great damage she had sustained, and, as there were no spars on board properly to replace those which had been lost, was now deemed absolutely necessary turn the ship's head a third time, and ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1853
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2321 | Page: 6 | Tags: none