... Ringdom-British ships lost, 1,668; tonnage, 413,0CO; lives lost, 030. On the Coasts of British Posses. Eicna ?? ships lost, 315; tonnage, 9i,470; lives loot, 308. On the Coasts of Foreign Countries- Bit~ish slirs losb, 660; tonnage, 226,868; ...

... attacking with im- petuosity, speedily engaged all the war-ships in the estary. .The Japanese bad the advantage in the' weather ,berth, and so manceuvred their ships that both Chinese transports and w~ar-ships- had to fight it out. According to the: Chinese' version ...

... ftrigte and Brazen ship of' war, were disulasted in a hurricane on the t)thi antl 20tth Angnst, anti driven on shore near Newv Orleans. About 100 vessels were supposed to have suffered dlamage. Wt e have a list orf thl ships lost in the dreadful hurricane ...

... crew had been saved. The ship was upwards of S00 fathoms from the lamlr The six men saved out of the Defence have, on examination, declaresf, that the lirst cause of this misfortitne was the St. 0 eorge havitig last mtonth lost her masts ii, a gale of ...

... if AN INDIAIaIAN AND TWO EMIGRANT SHIPS LOST.- I a MIltACULOUS PRESERIVATION OF fOUR HUNDRED the LIVES. WoTHIN the I Dt three or four days the sulbjoined inteltlgenne athas be e reeeived at Lloyd's, anso iocinog a lost fearful storm OD haviny occurred ...

... British vessels are reported as not heard of after sailing, or being spoken at sea,> and in these ships no fewer than 1,214 lives were lost ! These ships foundered in mid- sea, and it is impossible to account for their loss except on the hypothesis of ...

... average by 129. Of these 2,662, 1,463 were lost in missing ships. The number of missingeships was 149-saihog ships 137, tonnage 33,316, lives lost 1,225 ; steamships 12, tonnage 6,868, lives lost 238-total lives ...

... the averagecost of each ship (in- eluding insarance), in the first instance, at £8,006, and that re of their successive re-equipmente at £5,000, the aggregate capital invested will have been £13,348,000. The number of ships lost has been 130 ; of those ...

... chosen where the ship could be lost end the crew saved, and this perhaps accounted for the fact that, while 2,000 ships were lost, there were rather lessthan 1,000 lives lost. One owner lost ten ...

... to it. (Cheers.) From 1881 to 1388 there were 7,944 persons lost from ?? ships, and, deducting those lost feron fishing vessels, the ;ppallifng total of 6,805 remaiued. Doubtless many ships went to the bottom though everythintg was done whach humanity ...

... 1,927 ships, 1,16,i3 are known to have been ships belonging to Great Britain and its dependencies, with British certifi- catts (f registry, and 230 are known to have been ships belonging to foreign countries and States. Of the remaining 29 ships, the country ...

... hands a number of vessel. The loss of life is very great, it being estimated that at leaet lO men have peished in *v the lost ships. The following ate lthe principal ones, tl viz. :-Stcamei Colombo, of and from Hal[ to New York, cl crew aboat 60 men; steamer ...