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LOST HIS HEAD

... sundry ships, and in the latest issue of tho London Gazette it is announced that three wooden walls, types of the old Navy which held the command of the seas 100 years ago, are to be sold by tender. The largest is the Nettle, a second-rate ship of 2279 ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1901
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 351 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE LOST BOURGOGNE

... THE LOST BOURGOGNE. HT A The Par's l'eht 'Journal publishes a long and lleg torment of the wreck of the Bourgogne he pen of Maurice Bevels, one of the steersmen. Re, th'it soon after the captain had ordered eel head to he put toward Sable Island he ob ...

Published: Saturday 06 August 1898
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 651 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ENGLISH SLOOP LOST

... ENGLISH SLOOP LOST. News reached Cherbourg on Sunday of the loss, with all hands, in the Channel of the English sloop Firefly, which left that port for Shoreham on Thursday. Fearful weather has been prevailing for several days along the French Channel ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1906
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOST IN THE DARK

... LOST IN THE DARK. RICHARD DOWLING. dual,. of Under St. Paul's, de., ego. CHAPTER VII. Till DELL OF RATISACLI CLVI. Wait Markham Spalding reached the downs atm leaving hie lather's house, night had descended It was then low water. The wind had fallen ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1899
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3061 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FORTY LIVES LOST

... FORTY LIVES LOST. An extraordinary shipping disaster occurred on the Tykojarvi Lake on Sunday. A number of people were returning from church when the upper deck of the vessel conveying them collapsed, and the passengers were precipitated into the water ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOST ON THE WAY TO RUSSIA

... LOST ON THE WAY TO RUSSIA. CRUISER ZITHER MINED OR TORh'EDOED. The startling official announcement of the Admiralty was made on Tuesday that the cruiser hampshire, which was conveying Lord Kitchener and a special staff to Russia by the Archangel route ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1916
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOST AND FOUND

... LOST AND FOUND. A very valuable ancient manuscript belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury has just been re- covered under eingular Some 14 years ago a collection of ancient documents of about the middle of the 15th century, giving an account of ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1889
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1223 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LOST AGRA

... that of the ship's doctor. The stewardess was the only woman on board. One of the sailors who was rescued was so overcome that his mind has been temporarily unhinged. The scene of the wreck is quite near the where the German liner Seller was lost in ber last ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1897
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1431 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST

... SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST. Letters just received give particulars of the wreck of the Star of Greece, full-rigged ship, of Le!fast, in Australian waters, on July 15, on a voyage to England with wheat. On the morning following the day of sailing a prat storm ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1888
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NAVAL AIRMEN LOST

... NAVAL AIRMEN LOST. The Secretary of the Admiralty announces that Flight Lieut. Charles Francis Beevor, R.N., with Sub-Lieut. Earl Annesley„ R.N.V.R., as a passenger, left Eastchurch to sy abroad at 3.15 on Thursday the sth inst. The machine never reached ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1914
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNDEE WHALER LOST

... DUNDEE WHALER LOST. The Hudson Bay Company hare confirmed the reports published concerning the total loss of the Dundee whaler Seduisante, together with the owner, Mr. Forsyth Grant, of Ecelescraig, and Captain Connor and his entire crew of fourteen men ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1912
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

183 LIVES LOST

... go to sea in the Serpent. Fresh bands had therefore to be shipped in their places. Driscoll, a domestic, who was drafted to the Serpent from the Indus, desired to be sent back to his old ship. He explained to a reporter that his reason for so doing was ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1890
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 824 | Page: 5 | Tags: none