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... the total number of persons lost on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom in 1865, in 164 ships, was 698. Out of this number 276 lives were lost in vessels that roundnred, 03 were lost through collisions, and 335 were lost in vessels ...

HOUSE OF LORDS—TUCUSUAT

... relief of the widows ,tid orphans (,f se'iini^n whose lives might have been lo-t whilst serving on board any of Her Majesfy's ships lost under excep- tional circumstances, such as attended the case-t of the Captain, the Eurydic ...

Published: Friday 04 February 1881
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 454 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY

... meetings referred almost exclusively to the treatment of sailors on ship- board. At one, he stated that he intended to publish the death register, with the namea of the owners of ships lost, and the acn vho ii- j.i .,va = ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1880
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

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... 1870 there were 6,062 lives lost from British ships by shipwreck or other accident at sea. The returns of English coroners show 185 lives lost by explosions of land steam boilers in the two years. There were also 2,122 lives lost in mines, 606 on railways ...

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY

... formation of a fun 1 for the relief of the widows and orphans of seamen whose lives might have beea lost whilst serving on board any of Her Majesty's ships lost under excep- tional circumstances, such as attended the cases of the Captain, tho Bury dice, and ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1881
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 457 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

NEWPORT BANKRUPTCYI COURT, j

... lower part of New- port. Two uninsured ships lost away at sea, as the rhyme has it, and worth 24,000, appeared to be the beginning of the firm's troubles, and then in the case of another barque, the Governor, also lost, the insurance company successfully ...

Published: Tuesday 24 April 1894
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 575 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BRITISH AND FOREIGN SAILORS

... sea-keeping power of British ships and seamen. Briefly put, Lloyd's figures shew that 29 out of 2,452, or 1*18 per cent., of the sailing ships owned in the United Kingdom were lost in the period before mentioned. Of French sai'Jiog ships, 10 out of 549, or 1-82 ...

Published: Saturday 30 July 1898
Newspaper: Glamorgan Free Press
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 412 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

GREAT NAVAL BATTLE

... were upon them, and attacking with impetuosity, speedily engaged all the war ships n 1L estuary. The Japanese had the advantage n the weather berth, and so manoeuvred their ships that both Chinese warships and transports had to fight it out. FOUNDERING OF ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1894
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1610 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

STEAM-PACKET SHIPWRECKS.I

... Liverpool committed suicide soon afterjdie wreck of his vessel. Cunard's Company has, in its turn, lost some steamers and Croskey's Company has lost two ships. All of them sunk on the other side of the Atlantic; but their loss was unaccompanied by loss of ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1857
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 823 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE ALABAMA CLAIMS AND THE CANADIANS

... fair representation of American opinion am»ng mode- rate people. The gist of the article is as fol- lows :— Men who lost their ships during the war learning that England is ready to pay the cash, some of them are not unnaturally anxious to get 'the ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1870
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: 2 | Tags: News