... LOSS OF LIFE. An Italian brigantine, the Romanato, has struck off Dungeness. She has gone to pieces. The crew were all lost. The ship's papers, too, are all gone, and the only identification is the mark on the casks thrown on shore. The cargo was steel ...

... SHIPPING DISASTERS. Captain Bridgman, of the ship Wemyss Castle, arrived in London from Penang, repots sighting wieek, which proved to be a two masted vessel, of about 120 to 150 tons, painted black, stump of mainmast. standing about five feet above deck ...

... SHIPPING CASUALTIES. Several shipping casualties are reported. The most important is the wreck of a fishing smack at the mouth of the Humber during a gale. Her signals of distress were observed at Spurn, and the lifeboat WAS immediately got out. It was ...

... DECIDED BY SHIPS, If in half-an-hour an even number passed, the sign given should be a sign to live ; if the uneven number prevailed, the end should be death. With that final resolution she rested her head againat the window, and waited for the ships to pass ...

... loss of his ship, which occurred in lat. 18.45 N, long. 21.30 W :—We left London on october2nd,the pilot leaving the ship at the Downs. We were bound for East London, Buffalo River, Cape Colony, with a cargo of creoiv.ted sleepers. The ship proceeded on ...

... BOAT ACCIDENT NEAR lIESKETR BANK. FIVE LIVES LOST. A most lamentable occurrence took place on the south side of the estuary of the Ribble on Tuesday, causing the loss of five lives—a boy and four young ladies. On the day in question a new vessel had been ...

... right, and the ship kept on her way. About half-an-hour afterwards a collision took place between our ship and another. I did not see her until about two minutes before we struck her. Just before the actual collision the captain of our ship ordered the helm ...

... Botites. LOST, a Gold PENCIL CASE. —The finder will be rewarded on bringing it to the Office of this paper, LYTHAM COTTAGE HOSPITAL. THE Honorary Secretary begs to ack nowled g e the gift of Vols. 3 and 4 of Theodore Martin's Life of the Prince Consort ...

... STRUCK OFF THE REGISTER. In the course of the month of August last 135 sailing ships and 13 steamships were struck off the Register of Ships belonging to the United Kingdom and the Colonies. Of these, 55 were under 50 tons, 21 over 50 tons and under 100 ...

... them, and they were both lost. No one saw them after the sea struck the ship. Through that night, next day, and the following night the gale continued with great violence, and very heavy seas continually broke on board the ship in all directions, smashing ...

... we shall find that in the War of Inde penddence-1776 to 1783—we lost by accident ninety-three ships, seventeen of which were of the line, and at the close of the war we had 282 ships in commission, which would shew an average of about five ' per cent ...

... communicate with her, and although this fine ship will become R total wreck, not a life was lost, and every soldier was landed during the day. About 3000 yards from the Abercrombie Robinson was the convict ship Waterloo, which had arrived during the week ...