... the case of unworthy ships which were lost. The on aii Lt melanchtly result was that many ships annually sent to sea totally unfit to cope with its nn , st ordinary dangers, and not only large amounts of property wet e yearly lost, but large numbers f ...

... persons employed in them, and in the case of the shipping trade the necessity for interference was even greater. In five years 47 shipowners had lost 65 ships and 367 lives, and nine of the number had lost 35 ships and 137 lives. Perhaps in ...

... home during year 1874-5 were lost in 155 ships. The 293 lives lost through the sinking of the ship Norttleet wi 1 account for the number lost during the first six months of 1873. far exe.eeding the number ...

... a long list of the names of vessels transferred from American ownership during the war. In all, it says, America has lost 1000 ships and about half a million of tonnage. The result was mainly owing to a few rebel cruisers. It is announced that Russia ...

... destructive to ships of all classes and all ages. Thus, in ten years ending in 1868, disasters to comparatively new ships hear a very high proportion to the whole number, fur 176 wrecks and casualities happened to nearly new ships, and 297 to ships from three ...

... piteous sight! The gentle pilots of the night Are Murdered with the morning light! • • And, lo! for lack of warning call, Ships lost beneath that white tiea-wall, Where now the Flamborough Pilots fall! It does not appear out of place to suggest that ...

... all being those . from south-west. The number of ships lost are damaged in the 1,502 wrecks casualties, and collision reported represents a registered burden of upwards of 404000 tons. The number of ships wrecked in 1870 was less than the number in 1869 ...

... Wreck Register is, indeed, anything a cheerful study. It appears that both the number of lives sacrificed and the number of ships lost increased considerably. Of the former there aro six hundred and forty-five. which is an increase of a third in the numbers ...

... honourable gentleman the President of the Board of Trade if he will inform the Honse as to a number of ships lost in 1874, with 87 lives, and hlso to other ships abandoned during the present year? Whether the owner, Edward Bates, is the member for Plymouth, ...

... home during the year 1874-5 were lost in 135 ships. The 293 lives lost through the sinking of the ship Nortbfleet will account for the number lost during the first six months of 1873, far exceeding the number ...

... is in excess of the number lost in any year, excepting in 1859, when the loss of the Royal Charter brought the return to 884. It is very intcresting to notice that the whole of the lives lost in 1865 were lost in 164 ships. Out of 2,012 to which casualities ...

... HOW A GOOD SHIP WAS LOST. On the night of October 27th, 1842, the good ship Mary Compton, of Bristol, England, was struggling with a fearful gale off the coast of North America. The wind blew furiously, but the weather was clear, and the captain expected ...