... latest accounts, the two best battleships and two cruisers on the r Chinese side wvere destroyed, while the Jejpa- aaeso lost tViee, ships. Bo13t sidea appear to; have sheered off io re-fit. The result of the battle can only be derededi by its coase- e quencese ...

... Some of the best ships in the Mercantile Navy have never been visited officially by a Lloyd's surveyor. The Cunard ana otlier Illine!s may be cited as instances of imclassed ships. Besides, there are many first- class saiiiug ships belonging to wealthy ...

... sailed away with a their I It ships survivmng, though some vere damaged n la badly. I asked a distinguished nvxal officer aur is this afternoon what sort of a victory he con- sidered it where the victors lost, four ships ven e and tle defeated none. He ...

... their posi- tion. At 9 o'clock the American Squadron drew off, and took shelter behind some foreign shipping in the eastern side of the bay. The Spanish ships in face of the great superiority of the enemy suffered heavily. Fire broke out on the flagship Reina ...

... e shipowners when a ship is worn out they sell her, and thus she passes from hand to hand until she is lost. Now I want to revive the lost trade of the ship- breaker, and to abolish that which has taken its place, that of the ship-knacker. ...

... unclassed ships lost is from two to three times as great as the number of classed ships lost We may add tiiat the Board of Trade, under the Act of 1873, have confined their action almost entirely to unclassed ships. The long list of ...

... heat to ese trust thle Japanese for knowing whether they boa lost any ships ait all. dii cli, TnE INTERNATIONAL OUTrrooic. di'e sof Russia's ection in ordering additional war- fth, et, ships to Corean waters showss hnow deeply I oni- t-lie Czar's advisers ...

... slips of paper, occasionally get destroyed by accident. Tliey get consumed when a house takes fire, and not a few are lost when ships founder at sea. Occasionally one may have heard of their being eaten by rats, and there is at least one story current ...

... ignrat ship from the same port, was suffered, through an error in her reckoning, to run on the Wexford coast during NO the night of April 28, 1859, the result being the 3nti. loss of 3W lives. In 18i4 the Tayleur, another lave Liverpool emigrant ship, ran ...

... It is to be observed that nearly one-third of the lives lost were in ships reported as miss- ing. Of these there were no fewer than 71 in the year to w hich the report refers— 55 sailing ships and 16 st, amers. In the former, 566 seamen disappeared, ...

... criminal charge for ^ih loss of the ship, which had been more than the d at in the course of the inquiry. Mr. O'Dowd, in Opening statement, on behalf of the Board of Trade, J}v ^tioned that Captain Bertie had lost three ships in years. One of the witnesses ...

... which the 7 r*asec* ^ad taken. Wo of the anchors and cables lost by her ships Dolphin and Wanderer, at the jja 111 r'f the river Tees during the recent gale, hors^6611 recoverec* by her Majesty's ship Sea- lIie approaching miners' conference at ten ester' ...