... one of her Majesty’s screw sloops, the Amazon, and the Osprey, iren screw steamship belonging to the Cork Steam Shipping Company. The two ships ran into each other about one o’clock in the morning ; both were steaming at full speed; the night was clear; ...

... the session, showing the number of wrecks and casualties, exclusive of collisions, on the Goodwin Sands, occasioning loss of life, during the twelve years 1851 to 1862, with date of casualty, name of ship, &c. The number of vessels wrecked was seventeen ...

... cesspool, which a father lost bis life in saving that of his son. It appears that the deceased Richard Lawrence, carman living in Ship-lane, Queen-street, Hammersmith, was employed to empty a cesspool upon the premises formerly belonging to the late Mr. Tillyard ...

... under a blazing sun all day, and had eaten nothing. Some biscuits had been brought from the ship, and a few pieces of bacon. I must here tell that the stern of the ship before this was under water, and we expected to see her slip oft' die rocks every moment ...

... beautiful and mechanical contrivance invemted by Mr. Gladstone, the chain cables and anchors of a ship are lifted out of a barge in the dock (or from the ship herself when she can brought alongside), conveyed into tho Proving-houso on railway, which runs ...

... circumference is drawn across to prevent injury to the bridge by the shipping. Notwithstanding the ponderous nature of the barrier, which guarded tha entrance, it yielded to the force a ship which: was carried by the current against it, which occasioned the ...

... boor of ss. each. terrible shipping casualty has occurred cff Holyhead. The Etna, screw steamer, going south Queenstown, came in collision with large ; full-rigged ship, name as yet unknown, five miles west of Holyhead, the ship sinking instantly in thirty ...

... Admiral Dupont: “Flag-ship Wabash, Port Royal, Feb. 2. Sir,—l have to report that about four o’clock on the morning of the 31st ult., during the obscurity of a thick haze, two iron-olad gunboats came out of Charleston by the main ship channel, nnperceivable ...

... The Momteur la F/otte publishes the returns of the casualties experienced the French Imperial navy during the expeditions to the Crimea, the Baltic, and Petropaulovski in 1854, 1855, and 185 G. ' The ships’ crews lost 11 officers and 144 d men kille by the ...

... such character is evidenced by tbe fact that the total number of casualties reported as occurring last year in this country was 1,111, representing burttieu of 17C.51-1 ions of shipping and steamers combined. theee 1,111 vessels wrecked on our coasts ...

... New Zealand, 22nd October. The latest d »tes from England at Melbourne are August 20th, conveyed the ship White Star in 75 days. The following ships had arrived at Melbourne. From Liverpool— Lady Westmoreland, Fulwood, Merlin, British Lion, and Nugget ...

... Vienna. Rear-Admiral Lord Clarence E. Paget, C.8., M.P., at the request of the committee of the Thames Marine Officers’ Training Ship, has consented to distribute the prizes to the cadets on board the Worcester, off Erith, on the 14th inst. The officers of ...