Refine Search

THE WRECK REGISTER AND CHART FOR 1866

... number of ships lost or damaged in the 1860 casualties reported In 1866 Is 2289, representing a registered tonnage of upwards of 427,000 tons. The number of ships In 1866 Is in excess of the number in 1865 by 277. The number of ships reported as ...

Published: Tuesday 15 October 1867
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1240 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

NAUTICAL JOTTINGS

... losers, her 40 ships lost, condemned, ?? representing 2.69 per cent. of her total tonnage. The Norwegian losses were also heavy, including as they did 71 ships, and 1.94 per cent. of their tonnage. The French losses figure at 14 ships and .55 per cent ...

Published: Friday 28 July 1899
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2531 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE WRECK REGISTER AND CHARG FOR 1866

... of ships lost or damaged in the 1,860 casual- ties reportod in 1866 is 2,289, representing a registered tonnage of upwards of 427,000 tons. The numbor of shipo in 1866 is in excess of the number in 18O-by 277. The number of ships reported as -lost or ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1867
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 944 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

GROUNDING OE THE BRAZIL MAIL STEAMER TYNE

... pany has thus lost, embracing in the aggregate a large amount of capital. The names of tae previous ships lost to the company are Forth, Tweed, Acteon, City of Glavgow, Amazon, Isis, Solway, Medina, and Tay. The Brazilian vice-consul at Liverpool (Mr. Braga) ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1857
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1041 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE BALTIC FLEET

... It logne in November, 1805. He did not weigh difficulties tt and forestall contingencies, and he lost all his boats, and 9, very nearly lost his ships. L5 Nelson had not those difficulties to contend with either at the Nile or Copenhagen. At the former ...

Published: Tuesday 13 March 1855
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2016 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SCUTTLING SHIPS.—HOW IT IS DONE AND DETECTED

... SCUTTLING SHIPS.-HOW IT IS DO1N{EAND .DET-EOCTRD-. Uniderwriting, as ship insurance is'technically is oalled, is one of the most hazardous of maritime tc venture. Capitalists who: underwrite' a vessel b4 risk their money in the belief that the ship iseea ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1867
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4046 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... He had looked up the matter, and found that in the last five years these 47 owners had lost 65 ships end 367 lives; and of the 47, nine of them alone had lost 35 ships and 177 lives. He was not going to found any accusation upon that. It m ight be that ...

Published: Tuesday 20 May 1884
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 13322 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE LIVERPOOL SAILORS' HOME AND ITS WORK

... to do the %work of the ircomnpetents. Whien a crewv o was shipped under suehI cireumstances It enusld rnot be said ?? a ship was adequately manned; and h- e thought there were more ships lost for cant cf gcoI crews and good commanders than any other cose ...

Published: Friday 28 May 1880
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1289 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

QUAY PROTERAGE OF LIVERPOOL

... practically Mives the entire the charge of goods of the value ofimauy rhousa:l lore pounds sterling, by handing him the ship}'s lost order. The impossibility of the wareliousem'ni. gns exercising personal superintendence over gangs lied of porters scattered ...

Published: Wednesday 20 November 1878
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1252 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

NUMEROUS SHIPWRECKS

... others with grreat Lo aviolence. Bemrnen, bulwarks, &c.> were carried away, and - aother mischief done. Upwards o~stdoeen ships lost their deskr 'ecables, Sparta &c., and were nigh~ being driven ashore on cLive- Osff Dangeness, New Romney, asdd Rye, four ...

Published: Tuesday 12 October 1852
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1249 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH

... famous mixture, the result of of which is that, whilst other ships lost a portion of their crews oilt andad always more or losw hands laid up from diarrheao and dysentery, these ships never lost an hour's time froes by sickness of the crews, the captain ...

Published: Monday 31 August 1857
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1380 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SHIPWRECKED MARINERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

... by the fact that, as in the cases of collision, more e than one ship might be lost or damaged by one casualty. a There were 626 lives of seamen and passengers lost from 135 ships. There were interesting end curious maps published by this society, indicating ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1872
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2481 | Page: 3 | Tags: News