... of ships lost or damaged in the 1,860 casual- ties reportod in 1866 is 2,289, representing a registered tonnage of upwards of 427,000 tons. The numbor of shipo in 1866 is in excess of the number in 18O-by 277. The number of ships reported as -lost or ...

... pany has thus lost, embracing in the aggregate a large amount of capital. The names of tae previous ships lost to the company are Forth, Tweed, Acteon, City of Glavgow, Amazon, Isis, Solway, Medina, and Tay. The Brazilian vice-consul at Liverpool (Mr. Braga) ...

... It logne in November, 1805. He did not weigh difficulties tt and forestall contingencies, and he lost all his boats, and 9, very nearly lost his ships. L5 Nelson had not those difficulties to contend with either at the Nile or Copenhagen. At the former ...

... SCUTTLING SHIPS.-HOW IT IS DO1N{EAND .DET-EOCTRD-. Uniderwriting, as ship insurance is'technically is oalled, is one of the most hazardous of maritime tc venture. Capitalists who: underwrite' a vessel b4 risk their money in the belief that the ship iseea ...

... to do the %work of the ircomnpetents. Whien a crewv o was shipped under suehI cireumstances It enusld rnot be said ?? a ship was adequately manned; and h- e thought there were more ships lost for cant cf gcoI crews and good commanders than any other cose ...

... practically Mives the entire the charge of goods of the value ofimauy rhousa:l lore pounds sterling, by handing him the ship}'s lost order. The impossibility of the wareliousem'ni. gns exercising personal superintendence over gangs lied of porters scattered ...

... He had looked up the matter, and found that in the last five years these 47 owners had lost 65 ships end 367 lives; and of the 47, nine of them alone had lost 35 ships and 177 lives. He was not going to found any accusation upon that. It m ight be that ...

... others with grreat Lo aviolence. Bemrnen, bulwarks, &c.> were carried away, and - aother mischief done. Upwards o~stdoeen ships lost their deskr 'ecables, Sparta &c., and were nigh~ being driven ashore on cLive- Osff Dangeness, New Romney, asdd Rye, four ...

... by the fact that, as in the cases of collision, more e than one ship might be lost or damaged by one casualty. a There were 626 lives of seamen and passengers lost from 135 ships. There were interesting end curious maps published by this society, indicating ...

... famous mixture, the result of of which is that, whilst other ships lost a portion of their crews oilt andad always more or losw hands laid up from diarrheao and dysentery, these ships never lost an hour's time froes by sickness of the crews, the captain ...

... chance to publicly give our views to each other. I could tell you some queer tales of Liver- pool ships of 20 years ago. Of most the owners are dead, the ships lost or sold; but it would give the present generation of mates some idea of the advautages they ...

... Registrar-General of Shipping and a Seamen during the mzmnth of May, 1897,.has c been issued. The principal causes of death enumerated are as follow: -Drowning (ship- wreck and accidental at sea and in port), 118; lost in missing ships, 64; violent acci- ...