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... appears to be carefully and judiciously compiled, and lucidly and agreeably written; aud that fires, poisons, shipping and railway casualties and colliery accidents, in all their varieties, are among the principal subjects treated. The reputation of the ...
... families to a sight Jfi panorama iea ly worthy of admiration. gfi'ppiNG Disasters on the Eastern Coast.— CMft -ry serious shipping casualties, att. w h the everal lives, occurred last week off’be • a» t. Angle-Drench Company’s steamer Ernes* s,aiBion witb schooner ...
... adhered to, viz., that a running ship should go clear of a plying ship, and that it is generally most safe to under the stem of plying ship, which cannot port without going iu stays. South Shields, 11th Oct., 1852. THE CALORIC SHIP. NEW PROPELLINO POWER Ericsson ...
... Tidal Casualties in Shields Harbour. On Friday, between two and three o’clock in the after* noon, in consequence of a strong flood tide, the outer line of No. head moorings on the North side of Shields harbour, came away, and several of the ships settled ...
... MARINE LIFE AND CASUALTY MUTUAL INSURANCE SOCIETY, FOR the Insurance of Shipmasters, Seamen, and Passengers’ Lives, Baggage, and Personal Effects. Shipmasters’ Effects, Foreign Trade only, A,I. Ships, £5 5s per Cent.: part Coasting and part Foreign, £6 ...
... ATTACK BNOLIBH AND SHIP* TUB RUSSIAN FORTS AT SEBASTOPOL. The Moniteur de la Flotle publishes the following let ter“ Kamiesch, April 14.—You are aware that the port of Sebastopol protected against attack of the fleets by batteries and earthworks, and ...
... durable as iron? The ordinary termofduration of wooden ships is twenty years, and during that period they must be hove down and thoroughly repaired three or four times. To the duration of iron ship, on the contrary, it would be difficult to assign any ...
... Casualty at Sea.—On Sunday night, the Hanoverian schooner Nannette, Schumaker, arrived in the Tyne from Antwerp, having on board the body of Claar Asche, the cook, who died at nine o’clock on the evening of Saturday from Injuries received a fall from ...
... wrecked on the reef.’ This breeze carried the ship along some six or eight miles past Matautu. Here second dead calm set in. She was now good way off the coast. But the treacherous current again got hold of the ship. This time the danger was much more imminent ...
... the Harbour-master, casualties Diuch more serious, in all probability, would have taken place. The new Shields barque Peggy, recently stranded in the Sea of Marmora, was sold, sunk as she lay, to Mr. Swan, of Constantinople, for £l3O. Nearly all her valuable ...
... Tyne is indicative apathy amongst our Shipping proprietary, which must disparage them in the estimation of their fellow-countrymen. It is not only the Owners of vessels who may have to bear the expense of such casualties now have to deplore, hut the entire ...
... 1856.—1n the year 1866, 1,153 ships were wrecked or met with casualties on and near the coast of the united kingdom, between and 62° degrees north latitude and mid-channel, and 12 west longitude. The burden of these ships was 2*29,936 tons, and the number ...