The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-03-22 00:00:00

A JERSEY STEAMER RUN DoWN.

The screw steamer Mary came into collision with
the mail steamer Normandy, from Southampton, thirty
nff oh. Noon Deg, shoot 3 311 nu Tnnraday morning.
The Normandy WM struak each a blow &bat the paddle-
box that the captain at once saw the ship mast in-
evitably founder. He immediately ordered out the two
boats remaining, the life-boat, it transpired, having
been carried away in the collision, soda portion of the
passengers and crew thus sariceeded in reaching the
Mary, all the gentlemen standing back, and making no
attempt to get into the boatel until the ladies were in
them. Tbe captain nf the Normandy behaved with the
greatest coolness and jedgment under each trying
circumstances, and the last seen of him was on the
bridge, giving orders as to the management of the boats
and the working of the engines, and during the whole
occurrence an extraordinary amount of order and
quietness prevailed, and the greatest fortitude was
shown.

--Wline the two boate were pulling from the Normandy
they met the lifebost of the Mary in charge of the
eft:toad mate. He was urged to pull hard for the
Normandy, as she woe sinking, instead of which he
palled beak to the Mary. and asked for order,; wben
the captain replied, • You have my orders; proceed
Immediately for the wreck ;" and bed he done so in
the first place it is thought that most if not all those
lost would have been saved.

About twenty minutiae after the two boats left the
Normandy. they heard a load cry from many voices,
and soon after fell in with numerous floating articles,
proving that she had gone down. The captain of the
Mary stood by, and did .11 in his power to render as-
sistant's. firing blue lights, sending up rockees, and
three boats were pat out, and the Mari stood by the
scone of the &seater for about two hours, but without
result, the Normandy having gone down whilst her
two boats were reaching the Mary. The Mary herself
was badly injured, there being as immense bole In her
bow, the iron torn away, and the fore compartment
flooded, and had not the bulkhead stood well the pres-
sure put upon it, the Wary mart have gone down. As
It was she was lightened at the fore by the corn being
hove overboard. She arrived safely in the Southompton
water at last.

8o pleased Wen the passengers with the oonduet of
Captain Stranock, of the Mary, that they presented
him with an address of *make. Tbe names known of
the pawners who were drowned are—Gonersl Grant-
ham, Advocate Weetaway, Mr. Kinloch, and Mrs.
Loom. &ticks these there are believed to have been
lost three female. and four nut..; one naval esantan,
one merchant sailor, two soldiers, and two labourers.
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Those of the crew lost were--Captain H. B. Harvey.
commander ; Mr. Ookleford, chief mete; Mr. Cox,
chief engineer; Mr. Manlier°, second engineer; Mr.
Richardson, carpenter, three seamen, seven firemen,
and the ship's boy (son of Captain Clement of the
Courier).
The following are the names and addresese of the
renisrs saved—Mies Godfrey, Jersey • Mies Burrows,
r
Jersey; Mrs. Warden, Jersey; Mimi Cla:ybon, London;
Miss Pope, London; Mrs. Priest, London; Mrs.
Padaloy Roberts, Jervey • Mrs. Clitett, Guernsey; Mies
Roche, .I..reey ; Mrs. Wood, Guernsey; Miss Kinloob,
Jersey; Mr. John James. Guernsey; Mr. F. 0. Green,
Kennington Park; Mr. Henry Brownentt, Chelsea;
Mr. Frederick Cooper, Jersey; Mr. John Deem,
Mr. Edward Bullion, Jersey; Mr. Joseph
Spear, Kidd's Grove, Staffordshire.

'The. stew saved ire Mary Wilson, stewardess ;
William Dingle, ebiet stellate ; usiorre uouertn,
rescind mate. Stewards: Alfred Thome Petty. George
Lock, Joseph Blundell, and John Bann. Seamen :
Walter Henry Giles, Henry Wed, Edward Georg.
Sennett, James Arthur, James Willis, and William
Squibb. nate seamen and the Bremen (as above-
Mentioned) manned the two boats; the under stewards
jumped into one of them as she was leaving the ship;
the second mate jumped from the taffrail, and the *bet
steward jumped overbosrd and wss picked up.
The Normandy was one of the quiekeet and strongest
constructed Warners that cross the Channel, and
the force exerted to render her so utterly disabled
must have been immense, as she was In first-rate oondi-
tion. and only six years old. During the forty years
that the South-Western Company has performed this
Channel service so grave a disaster has not befallen
them.