Refine Search

THE STRANDING OF THE S.S. RICHMOND

... of Leinster to set fire to the cargo, but, in the face of the subsequent casualty, it was desirable that all the circumstances of trie sale, purchase, and insurance of the ship should be considered and dealt with by the Court. The Richmond was a steasnhbip ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1895
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2100 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

FEARFUL SHIPWRECK OFF YARMOUTH

... strong easterly wind blowing with heavy showers of rain, but it was not such a night as is generally attended with any shipping casualty, nor were any signals perceived from the look-outs along the coast during the night. At daybreak, however, a vessel, ...

Published: Friday 03 March 1882
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE LATE GALES

... were fortunately preserved. The telegraphic advices from the Hague alco furnish long lists of casualties re- sulting from the recent severe weather. Several Ship% are stated to have been stranded. The Blue Jaoket, Captain Hargeave, from ~Autweep for Ipawic ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1861
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1202 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DISASTERS AT SEA

... and registered 499 tons gross; her class at Lloyd's was £E 1. WRECK OF A LARGE SHIP.-THREE MEN DROWNIED. Information received from floyd!s reports the loss of the British ship Batavia, 1,00 tons, bound from New York to Shanghai with a valuable cargo, at ...

Published: Friday 25 April 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1160 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

NEWCASTLE AND THE WALKER GATE CALAMITY

... works of Messrs Mawson, Clark, and Company were blazing, and the, scene of an explosion that wvas attended with lamentable casualties.. The oil tank that burst, throwing its boiling contents over a crowd of people whose curiosity had led them into dangerous ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1898
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 926 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

TWELVE MONTHS' RAILWAY ACCIDENTS

... year than there are seamen lost in shipping disasters on the coast of the United King- dom in the same time. But while we know with tolerable accuracy how many lives are lost in con- nection with sliipping casualties at sea, it is by no means certain that ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1878
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1326 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

DISASTERS AT SEA

... DISASTERS AT SEA. LOSS OF A BRITISH SHIP. A It Vincent (Clape Verde) telegram, dated July 19. says the British ship Norfolk from Bathurst for Marseiles (pea- nuts), has been totally lost at Boavista; crew saved. LOSS OF A SHIP AND ALL HANDS. The schooner Fanny ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1676 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE ZULU WAR

... General on success. Casualties: Lieutenant John- son, Privates Smith and Lawrence, 99th; Private B. Marshall, 91st; Private J. Pratt, 60th Rifles, killed. Colonel Nlorthey, 60th Rifles, and Dr. a Longfield, of Her Majesty's ship Teneedas, dangerously ...

Published: Wednesday 23 April 1879
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1728 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE STORM

... which had meanwhile been done both on land and sea it is impossible to arrive at any approximate estimate. The record of shipping disasters, apart front the loss of the P. and 0. steamship Bokhara, with snore than one hundred lives, in the midst of the ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1892
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 546 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SEVERE GALE

... and Angleeea coasts,- Towards evening it increased in full fury, and on Tuesday continued some- what modified. The heaviest casualty is that which befelthe brigantine Reefer, for Garston, which, when in tow of a tug, foundered some 30 miles W.S.W, of the ...

Published: Friday 11 October 1878
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... this opep column., t. SMOKE AND FOGS ON THE TEES it Sts,-1 was not surprised to see the report of what was well-nigh a ?? casualty reported ) in your colmnne to two Hartlepool gentlemen bathers at Seaton Carew. The captains and others who have to navigate ...

Published: Monday 29 July 1889
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 556 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE STORM

... service at sea should have taught hini. namely, a quiclr frequent use of the head, the casualty would not have happened. Had the engines been stopped, and the ship been allowed to forge into shiiler water after the eleven fathoms cast, it would only have ...

Published: Friday 14 May 1886
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 890 | Page: 3 | Tags: News