... aged 50, who lost his life while at Ilea, under peculiar circumstances. According to the evi- dence of the chief mate, Charles Jones, the deceased was a raPtain in the service of the Steam Navigation Company, and command of the screw ship Vahulea, which ...

... the three men who so heroically rescued six of the crew of the unfortunate ship Avonmore. The names of the other two men are William Stewart and Charles Wilson. The vessels lost, and whose crews landed at Liver- pool on Monday, are the Conway Castle, Lady ...

... equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing won in any wager, but it says nothing about money lost. Baron Bramwell holds that money lost in such cases as the present may be recovered. But if the partnership had resulted in a profit, it is clear ...

... loss of some army and naval stores, valued at about X;3,000, which were alleged to have been lost through the negligence of the master of the defendants' steam- ship Kaffir, while on a voyage from Cape Town to Natal, about 2 p.m. on the 13th of February, ...

... cargoes sent to the West Indies and to South America have yielded handsome returns. Coal is delivered on board ship at the various shipping places in Nova Scotia nine shillings sterling per ton, and ocean steamers call- ing at Halifax cai at any time ...

... rebel vessel lost no time in returning. The figfrt con- tinued for an hour and a half at rifle range, when, darkness coming on, the Huascar thought it advisable to decamp. The force sent on shore returned on board. The Independencia lost two men, and ...

... order was given in London, and the window was finished and sent out by the Fairy Vision for Marseilles in October last. The ship foundered almost within sight of port, on one of dangerous sandbanks off the mouth of the Rhone. The window was insured, and ...

... clone. The cruiser was evidently used lo lu r work. No time was lost in searching the prizes, the few valuable effects were removed, the match was lighted, and in another moment the blazing ship was fast drifting away with the current. When evening closed ...

... GALLANT RESCUE of a SHIPWRECKED CREW. The ship Thomas Brocklebank, which arrived on Mon- day at Liverpool from Jamaica, landed the crew of the American schooner Louis A. Swett, which was abandoned at sea. On the morning of the 10th ult., as the Thomas ...

... persons who escaped, has also furnished the following account of what passed after he and his fellow voyagers left the sinking ship in No. 3 lifeboat :— I aoted as second officer on board the screw-steamer Hibtrn wliicIlleftXew York on Saturday, the 14th ...

... exception of the dwellings of two chiefs, the town was completely destroyed. Fifteen or twenty persons are supposed to have lost their lives. A person in the employ of a chief perished in the flames which de- stroyed his master's house; and when the fire ...

... steamer Ava, which whUe bound for London with a full cargo, was totally lost by collision at 2.30 a.m. en May 24, about 66 mile* louth of the Sand he ads, near Calcutta, with the ship Brenhilda, from Algoa Bay, in ballast. The Ava was run into nearly amidships ...