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THREE EAST INDIA SHIPS LOST

... THREE EAST INDIA SHIPS LOST. al Letters received at Lloyd's, by the Overland Mail, ma communicate the sad intelligence of the loss of three la fine ships, employed in the East India and China trade, attended, in one case, with a melancholy sacrifice, ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1856
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 968 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

FRANCE

... ended in the drawing up of auy convention whatever. 'lhe Portuguese Consul has received information that since the lost* all ships arriving from St. Nrzaire have been admitted into the port cf Lisbon without having undergo quarantine. Pays this evening ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1861
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

SHIPPING NEWS

... the underwriters who were on the missing vessels. On the other hand, as the ships have to be replaced, naval architects, ship- builders, and engineers, all interested in ship construction, most of the owners, and even the classification corporations will ...

Published: Tuesday 11 April 1899
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 725 | Page: 12 | Tags: Commerce 

THE BURNING OF THE SHIP WILLIAM NELSON

... of the passengers of the ship William Neleon. They were floating upon spars, pieces of wood, hencoope, &o., up to the waist in water, and were almost in A state oE nakedness, 1ight of the females were seated ntrilde the lost ship's mainmaset. The ninth ...

Published: Wednesday 19 July 1865
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 767 | Page: 5 | Tags: Commerce 

SUMMARY

... and all of them have been abandoned. The crows of the. lost ships, 1200 men and 90 officers, were distributqrl among the other vessels of the fleet which succeeded in escaping. No lives were lost. The native who murdered Mr. Justice Norman at Calcutta ...

Published: Tuesday 07 November 1871
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 960 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LOSSES AT SEA

... as for classed ships, and this is accounted for the 'excessive rate of mortality «f unclassed ships, shown the official returns of losses made the Board of Trade. 6. The statement that classed ships are lost frequently unclassed ships is by ...

Published: Friday 30 July 1875
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SHIPPING DISASTERS

... foundered, involving the loss of five lives; three vere reported missing, wvith 30 live-s lost. Foar ships met with miscellaneous casualties, in which five lives were lost. DIsaSTmR TO A STEAMER. - A SaOWnD MATE - LRnFD.-The ?? of St. Vincent, which struck ...

Published: Monday 21 July 1890
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 578 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE NAVIGATION OF THE HOOGHLY

... present time, there has been but one vessel lost, To sumrmarise these, we have 57 ships lost in (say) eleven years; or as the tabular statement is but made up to the pad of the season 1862-63, excluding the vessel lost since, we will conform to it, and say ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1865
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

SAFETY SHIPS, STEAM-BOATS, &c

... of seaman- ship, we shall venture -to assert, that vessels constructed upon the plan recommended, would not be so subject to this fate as ordinary ships, and we think we can assign at a very sufficient reason for the assertion. Ive When a ship is driven ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1828
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1181 | Page: 7 | Tags: Commerce 

THE HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES

... believed to have been lost. The total Is 132. By the loss of life on board the Rhone and the Wys, probably 300 women and children in Southampton are left destitute. It is stated that the Royal Mall Company have lost nearly 20 ships worth £2,000,000. Herling ...

Published: Tuesday 12 November 1867
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 470 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY YACHTING FEAT

... the 7th, when off Cape Lewin, she encountered a very violent gale from the N. W. round to S. W., in which ceveral large ships lost their spare. The gale lasted four days, during which the yacht waO hove to, and she was again compelled to heave to off ...

THE TRADE OF FRANCE

... of French ships entered and cleared at to French ports in 1892 was 46,844 ships, with th a total of 22,141,791 tons, as against 51,573 th ships of 25,135,485 tons in 1891. Havre lost 10 390 ships, of 345,000 tons ; Bordeaux ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1893
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1067 | Page: 8 | Tags: Commerce