... certainly none of tile four ships that are frozen into the land ice of the west shore of the Straits. We must, therefore, use every possible exertion to get to sea in one ship, and endeavour to afford thein such temporary relief as one ship can supply, until the ...

... Austrian ships lost; then came a supplementary paragraph saying that the Kaiser and two other vessels had been sunk; the Italian press improved on this, and in more than one paper it at last came to be asserted that the Austrians had lost eight ships of their ...

... foul of others with great violence. Booms, bulwarks, &c., were carried away, and other mischief done. Upwards of a dozen ships lost their cables, spars, &c., and were well nigh beina driven ashore on the Goodwin. Off Dungeness, New Rom- ney and Rye, four ...

... by somebody, England announces that she v.ill makle no further move. In the meantime, lcowvever, the surviving men who lost their ships during the wvar learning that England is ready to pay the cash, some of them are not unnaturally anxious to get ...

... nearly new ships, and 374 to ships from three to seven years old. Then there are wrecks and casualties to 481 ships from 7 to I4 years old, and to 666 from x5 to vo years old. Then follow 298 old ships from 30 to 50 years old, 47 to ships ...

... confirmed the report of an affion having takeoplace in ?? stating that the Spaniards claimed the victory, though they had lost three ships of the line and the English two.. This was stated with so much confidence, that credit was. given to trie rumour for ...

... 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 ...

... and the following day 99 shipping disasters are. reported to have occurred. Westerly gales are far more destructive thari these from the east, the most destructivo of all being these from south-west. The number of .ships lost or danmaged in the 1,502 ...

... 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 ...

... fire, it is intelligible that lives should be lost ; but in this case the fire broke out on the pier, and most of the lives were lost on ships moored off the pier. Why it was not possible for all the ships to sheer off as one of their number did, cannot ...

... finest ships, besides their gallant and heroic commander, who was killed by a musket shot. This engagement was a most severe one. No ships were taken on either side-all the vessels lost being either sunk or otherwise destroyed. The English lost two ships ...