... SHIPPING. ENT POST FREE to all who intend go ing to 0 AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, or any part of the World, GUIDE BOOKS, MAPS, TIME SAILING BILLS, and other information, by the Finest, Fastest, and the Cheapest Steamers afloat. From Glasgow, Liverpool, and London ...

... SHIPPING DISASTERS. A Holyhead correspondent telegraphs that the ship Thistle, of Glasgow, arrived there on Tuesday, having been safely piloted into the harbour by Mr. Owen, Trinity pilot. The ship encountered terrific weather after leaving Swansea. One ...

... drowning of Lieutenant F. S. Ommaney, of her Majesty's ship Victor Emanuel, Kua rdship at the latter p o rt. The had only arrived on the station last Januar.r, but bad not been in good health. had lost his wife very recently, and was too ill to r atond her ...

... SHIPPING DISASTERS IN THE GALE. The completed returns of shipping casualties in the Liverpool district owing to the great storm of SaturdaY, show a larger amount of damage than has been occasioned for years past. The total loss of life from the numerous ...

... ALARMING SHIPPING DISASTER. FEARED LOSS OF 300 LIVES. Lloyd's agent at Gibraltar telegraphs on Tuesday: —British steamer Utopia, in coming in, was in colfission with the British ironclad Rodney, at anchor. Many lives lost. A large number of people are ...

... SHIPPING DISASTERS. Another collision has occurred in . the Channel between the steamship Ebbw Vale, of Cardiff, and the steamship Sumatra, of Stavanger, resulting in the sinking of the former vessel. The Ebbw Vale was bound with a cargo of barley from ...

... fighting with an American ship, and for some time the wildest excitinent prevailed. A display of the Alfonso's search lights, however, demonstrated her safety, but it was seen that not a quarter of • mile from her a huge ship was blazing. Crowds of boats ...

... ENGLISH STEAMER BLOWN UP. FORTY LIVES LOST. Considerable excitement was caused on Tuestla v in shipping circles at Liverpool on the publication of a dispatch stating that the well-known West African liner Matadi, belonging to the British and African Steamship ...

... believe ? Yes. Have you known many ships broken up on account of their age ? I cannot say that I know of any cases where they have been broken up. What becomes of these vessels? Do they go on till they are lost? I suppose so. THE MERCHANT SAILOR'S ...

... FOUNDERING OF A SHIP WITH ALL HANDS. Before daylight on Monday the Bessie Jane, of Padstow, ran for the harbour of St. Ives, and Captain Mitchell, her master, reported that when eight miles off Godrevy it was blowing a strong gale, the weather was very ...

... FRIGHTFUL SHIPPING DISASTERS IN JAPAN. LOSS OF OVER 300 LIVES. The mail, which has just arrived from Japan, brings news of an awful shipping disaster off the Japanese coast, by which more than 260 persons lost their lives. It took place at 3 a.m. on the ...

... otrs, and boats were lowered to bring them alongside the ship, those already rescued assisting. To make acoommodttion for them thirty tons of cargo were thrown overboard. Fur mealy hours the ship lay to, till a steamer, the Grecian, hove in sight, and ...