... slips of paper, occasionally get destroyed by accident. They 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 rate, and there is at least one story current ...

... in reference to it all over the country, and Mr. Plimsoll's constant revelations with regard to unseaworthy, missing, and lost ships, and his persistent efforts to effect reform, had aroused an amount of public indignation and expectation which would have ...

... sunk last week was 24—the same total as in the week before,—while the smaller ships lost number four, as against ten. As the Admiralty do not disclose the amount of tonnage lost it is impossible adequately to compare one week's losses with thew of another ...

... believe in it may bold to have been strengthened by the war, and that is the Whisk of changing a erasers name. Among the ships lost to us are the Good Hope, originally named Africa the pathfinder (Fretnet), the Triumph (Libertad). the Viknor (Viking), ...

... Dartmoor. The reason assigned is that some expenses for the carriage of tents and supplies would be incurred. LOST SHIPS. According to Lloyd's Shipping List, the Hans Christen ()tilted, of Veils, Andersen, sailed from the Tyne, with coals, for Messina, on the ...

... of ships lost at sea is, in the pre--3 day. much greater thin in the days before steamships had been invented. In order to obtain, if pentads, some support for this opinion from official figures, h e has asked for a return of the number of ships of the ...

... persons employed iu them, in the CUB of the shipping trade the inceaity fur interference was even greater. In five years 47 shipowner had 105t,135 ships and 387 liver', and nine of the number had lost 35 ships and 137 lives. Perhaps no human foresight could ...

... yearending June, 1875, record the most numerous casualties that have hitherto occurred in one year. The number of lost or damaged ships within our seas amounted in that period to 4259. Of these, 155 were attended with loss of lives, which in the very ...

... over January terms. There ale no other changes from a week ago. A YEAR'S SHIPPING CALAMITIES. Abstracts have beea published of the returns made to the Board of Trade of shipping casualties which occurred near the coasts or in the riven and harbours of ...

... BRITISH SHIP LOST A telegram from Lloyd's agont at Wellington. N.Z., dated April 31, twenty minutes, to two p.m., states that the British ship Zuteam has been wrecked and totally lost, ship and cargo, at Palliser. Nine persona only Paved. MR ...

... TERRIBLE WRECK OF AN ENIGRANT SHIP. NEARLY 600 LIVES LOST. A terrible disaster occurred in Gibraltar Bay on Tuesday evening. The Utopia, an Anchor liner, had been chartered from en Italian port to carry a large number of Italians to America. The steamer ...

... THE LOST COTOPAXI. Judgment has been given in the Board of Trade inquiry at Liverpool into the loss of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Cotopaxi. on April 15 last. The vessel was on a voyage from Liverpool to Valparaiso, and after having ...