... in the number of passengers lost. The average number of seamen lost in sailing vessels was 997 and of passengers 54, agaiust 378 seamen and 14 passengers lost in 1897- 98. The average number of seamen lost in steam- ships was 495 and of ...

... these provisions. Whether these provisions were those lately left for them, or possibly part of the stores of Ross's old lost ships, which Emma had often seen at no great distance from Franklin, I could not ascertain, From Captain Austin's account of his ...

... June 29, twelve at noon, ea wvas received, -with the intelligence that the Ashford ce: had arrived with three crewss of the lost ships, and reported that 20( more crews had been saved, and he Were on board vessls isnaking for theport. The in- th telliasence ...

... carried by 72 to 57 votes. The Bill for providing Pensionis for the Relief of the Widows and Orphantes of the Crews of tile lost ships Albany and Porpoise swas also p;seaed. 'Ile Senlate also passed a Bill providing for the compulsory pre- pit yment oE Postage ...

... the diver and his lamp may, it is his firm belief, be successfully used -the same as in the exploring of docks, recovering lost ships at sea, constructing bridges, &ic. A READINGBY Men. DICKENS AT PAnRs.-Mr. Charles Dickens gives a gratuitous reading of ...

... rfeason for the want of suc- cess that the ships were compelled to remain much too long in Melville Bay, as the wind blew a strong gale from the south, and blocked up the' entrance to the bay. 'Here the ships were detained twelv'e wseks; and'*hen They ...

... or 1 in 70. In the 7,129 ships which sailed in the five years there were 1,494,044 passengers. The number of lives lost by shipwreck was 1,043. The per centage of loss was 069, or 1 in 1,432. No lives were lost by the ships chartered by the Emigration ...

... number of ships lost in these casualties, &c., was 1,2ua, representing a registered tonnage of upwards Cf K335,154 tons, being 311 more than in the corresponding period of the year preceding- Daring the years 1872 3, there were 52 ships lost on or near ...

... Peterbead left, 18 (besides two foreign aships not named) were lost, and 21 were clean. The success of -the others, it will lie seen, runs from one to nine fish. Of the British vessels lost, six belong to Hull, one to Whitby, two to Leith, four to Aberdeen ...

... possible. nev less FINDING OF TWO LOST SHIPS. a s mei SurPOSED RECOVERY OF £165,000, the: AMoxNGT the vessels lost in the memorable cyclone of I that swept over the Bay of Bengal in 1867 were the rep, steamer Thunderer and the ship Morayshire. Search and was ...

... Nor is the register of disaeter even then complete; for under the comprehensive heading other causes are scheduled many ships lost or condemned through such various mishaps as burn. iog, either by spontaneous combustion of cargo, explosion of gunpowder ...

... villanies. TLe I, ?? officers in New Orleans have certainly p I I as mnuch by war as their comrades oin the ?? tomac have lost:- ,Ships have been loaded with costly artie:,sc' furniture stolen-they say confiscated-fr(un oij. citizens, and transmitted North ...