... whole number of vessels lost was 442. Of these there were- Ships and barques . 74 Sloops 16 Brigs 124 Steam Boats .. 9 Schooners 187 Unknown . .. 32 Of these there were lost towards the close of ...

... - 5 Newcastle ?? 1510 124 39,351 Table 2.-Skewing the loss annually in number of ships aond amount of tonnage. Year. No. lo Tons; Year No. of Tons ships. lost, ships lost.~ 1816 ?? 1. 290 1831 ?? 3. 919 1817 ?? ?? ?? 1818. 2. 668 1833 . 1.5 ...

... number of ships lost, he said some shipowners had lost every ship they owned. One man had 12, and he had lost 11 ; another 19, had lost every one siuce 1875, and a curious incident In connection with this loss ...

... unclassed ships lost was from two to three times as great as the number of classed ships lost. From these figures he thought they would have no difficulty in forming a clear opinion as to the necessity for the compulsory survey of unclassed ...

... could be lost and the crew be saved, and this accounted for the fact that a larger number of ships than of lives were lost. In this way owners got paid for ships that were not broken up. The fact of a ship being broken up was unknown. One ...

... insurance should be paid if the vessel were lost. It' was remarkable and even frightful how many ships were lost at sea long after they should have been broken up; but they were far more profitable as lost ships than by being broken up as ...

... Franklin. He followed the track of the lost ships through Davis's Straits and Baflin's Bay into Barrow's Straits and Smit1,'s Sound, and finally took up his winter quarters in Renaselger Bay, where the ice packd around the ship til there was no open water within ...

... these ships were entirely lost, and 33 sustained partial damage. Of the 698 lives lost, 275 were lost in vessels that foundered, 53 on board vessels in collisions, and 335 in vessels stranded or cast ashore, The re- maining'number, 35, were ...

... if AN INDIAIaIAN AND TWO EMIGRANT SHIPS LOST.- I a MIltACULOUS PRESERIVATION OF fOUR HUNDRED the LIVES. WoTHIN the I Dt three or four days the sulbjoined inteltlgenne athas be e reeeived at Lloyd's, anso iocinog a lost fearful storm OD haviny occurred ...

... British vessels are reported as not heard of after sailing, or being spoken at sea,> and in these ships no fewer than 1,214 lives were lost ! These ships foundered in mid- sea, and it is impossible to account for their loss except on the hypothesis of ...

... the averagecost of each ship (in- eluding insarance), in the first instance, at £8,006, and that re of their successive re-equipmente at £5,000, the aggregate capital invested will have been £13,348,000. The number of ships lost has been 130 ; of those ...

... Church.side), and had a thack-straw roof. The Corporation relieved him and voted him £10 from the town's kyst (chest). He lost his ships by the storms, and was brought to beggary. There is also a very affecting account given on his receiving the donation ...