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From the Flying Post

... brings the melancholy News, that the Fleet of Merchant Ships, consisting of Eleven Sail, under Convoy of the Milford Man of War, which sail'd from that Island the 22th of June laft, were all lost on the Island of Cuba. On the 16th, another Fleet of 6 ...

Published: Thu 18 Aug 1720
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

From the Evening Poft, Aug. 16

... of the Ships that were lost on the Island of Cuba on the 18 of June, 1720, with the Number of Men. His Majesty's Ship the Milford Man of War, Captain Peter Chamber- lain, their Convoy, all lost, except the Purser and 30 Men. The Names of the ...

Published: Mon 22 Aug 1720
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 159 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

W t f/s Letter 'verbatim, London, Atiguft 19th

... promised in their Former, touching the Examinations taken by the Secret Committe, which has occasioned divers Wa- gers to be lost : Mean while they furnish their Readers with great Speeches of the Emperor Galba to Piso, and likewise with an Introduction ...

Published: Thu 24 Aug 1721
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 787 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

From the London Gazette, November sS

... the Ship being brought to, to the Southward, and the foretack go:.* board, Wind at S, W. but could not Weather the Rocks without tki they put the Helm a Lee to ftay, but the Captain called to fee; fafi tl he fore Sheet 5 at the fame Time the Ship (truck ...

Published: Tue 05 Dec 1721
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 832 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

From the Whitehall Evening Poft*, J

... Majesty's Ship the Hind , Capt. Fuzzard, a 6th Rate, of 20 Guns, struck upon a Rock in Jersey Heads within half a Musket shot of Guernsey Castle, and was Lost; by this unhappy Accident 21 Persons perished, among whom are the said Captain, 94 of the Ships Company ...

Published: Tue 09 Jan 1722
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

' From the St. James

... Calculation publifhed he re, of Ships belonging t different Nations, That the following Numbers have entered this Port the lali Year, viz.. zi6 ships of Gre t Britain, befides fome Men of War, and 18 Packet Boats ; -jz Ships of Hol- jand; 7* French ; 13 ...

Published: Thu 22 Feb 1722
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 589 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

From ths St. James's Evening-P'oft, Oth.j^

... Herrings, lost near Helsingbourg; Capt. Wybrand Pieterez, lost by Landskroon; Capt. Lars Finbergh, from St. Ubes, was full of Water at Falsberburgh; Capt A. J. Lung from Stockholm, lost near Memel; a Ship laden with Iron, and another with Flax, both ...

Published: Mon 24 Oct 1726
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 734 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

From the Evening Pos

... will cost a great deal to repair, which verifies the old Proverb ; but it is a great Mercy, there was no Life of Man or Beast lost. London, May 29. On Saturday last a great Storm of Hail fell near St. Albans in Hertfordshire, which was so violent, that it ...

Published: Thu 03 Jun 1731
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1069 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

f LONDON. i yefterda

... Wehear that Mr. Robert Arbuthnot has been 15 for hither from Paris. G.i Tasfday the Lords ofthe Admiralty put Kis |ij?fty's Ship the Lime, of 40 Guns, into Com nlon, Capt. Danfey, and ihe is ordered to the lil Station. Btr Grace the Datchefs of Buckingham ...

Published: Tue 20 Jun 1732
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 925 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LONDON. I ExtraU of

... with Orders to take and bring in alii Ships they could overcome, in which they flic. find either Moors or Moorifn Effects, by way of R prifal for the Algerines having taken the Spank and their Efle&s out of fuch Ships asthey found.: on board. Yefterday the ...

Published: Tue 30 Jan 1733
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 802 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LONDON. We had Yeste

... seven Men of War in the Line of Battel, ready to sail. We have from Yarmouth a Confirmation of ths Charles and Mary Sloop being lost, which sailed from the River the 20th last for Roterdam, with 25,000 I. in Gold, bsfides fine Goods, Rice, &c, with 40 Persons ...

Published: Mon 09 Apr 1733
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 568 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

From the Evening Pos

... from France, ad- visng that about 30 Ships are cast away on that Coast, among which is the John of Cork, bound to Gibraltar; but the others were not yet known The Master of a Ship at Kinsale being accused of shipping Camlets for Portugal, for which he was ...

Published: Mon 20 Jan 1735
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 935 | Page: 2 | Tags: none