... in the number of passengers lost. The average number of seamen lost in sailing vessels was 997 and of passengers 54, agaiust 378 seamen and 14 passengers lost in 1897- 98. The average number of seamen lost in steam- ships was 495 and of ...

... thousand dweilinghouses vwer destroyed t>y the -| cent cyclone, and about six thousand injured. Twenty-fivelives were lost. The ships Rossini I and Loch Liunhe, which were stranded, have been got off. The Fiji and Alexander remain stranded. TheTimesPh ...

... these provisions. Whether these provisions were those lately left for them, or possibly part of the stores of Ross's old lost ships, which Emma had often seen at no great distance from Franklin, I could not ascertain, From Captain Austin's account of his ...

... Inman line, with ,12 steamers, lost 6 ships from 1851 to 1878. The Allaii line, which now numbers 17 steamers, lost.7 from 1852 to 1873. The American Collins line, which worked from 1852 to 1858, lost two out of four ships. The German ...

... June 29, twelve at noon, ea wvas received, -with the intelligence that the Ashford ce: had arrived with three crewss of the lost ships, and reported that 20( more crews had been saved, and he Were on board vessls isnaking for theport. The in- th telliasence ...

... They were abandoned on the 13th instant, thirteen others having been previously sunk or driven ashore. The crews of the lost ships, numbering 1,200 men, were distributed among the other vessels of the fleet which ma- saged to escape. The assassin of Judge ...

... carried by 72 to 57 votes. The Bill for providing Pensionis for the Relief of the Widows and Orphantes of the Crews of tile lost ships Albany and Porpoise swas also p;seaed. 'Ile Senlate also passed a Bill providing for the compulsory pre- pit yment oE Postage ...

... the diver and his lamp may, it is his firm belief, be successfully used -the same as in the exploring of docks, recovering lost ships at sea, constructing bridges, &ic. A READINGBY Men. DICKENS AT PAnRs.-Mr. Charles Dickens gives a gratuitous reading of ...

... rfeason for the want of suc- cess that the ships were compelled to remain much too long in Melville Bay, as the wind blew a strong gale from the south, and blocked up the' entrance to the bay. 'Here the ships were detained twelv'e wseks; and'*hen They ...

... or 1 in 70. In the 7,129 ships which sailed in the five years there were 1,494,044 passengers. The number of lives lost by shipwreck was 1,043. The per centage of loss was 069, or 1 in 1,432. No lives were lost by the ships chartered by the Emigration ...

... and the staff of the Ministry, re- ceived Admirl Cervera, Captain Elalte, and Captain Morsem, who commanded two of the ships lost at the battle of Santiago, and other officers of the station to-day on their return from America. A crowd of five hundred ...

... number of ships lost in these casualties, &c., was 1,2ua, representing a registered tonnage of upwards Cf K335,154 tons, being 311 more than in the corresponding period of the year preceding- Daring the years 1872 3, there were 52 ships lost on or near ...