The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-09-04 00:00:00

WRECK OF A NEWPORT VEiiEL

having
i sot
winij
line,.
with
at
Fleet'
wee or 11 tams.
up the Channel, sod in th, face of the increming gale
bokardba6oo"l came
netobonsuonflpbtoo!pbalommoth.cfioranodrdlo2roh.ands,
would hold. As the wind and Increase
sea 1 and the
sip.tr,wiosni
bgieitivhtiyed etynhetrttilhaeft Irt,ornobizaicrugd.trahonatth.thehyoerheosnwilyatshcrh„,er
baore,,:ft
tide rose, however, this frail 11 pe was dmhed, for the
two anchors' cables ported in rapid succession, and the
had been observed, and the rocket apparatus from
ricks,w with which
bat tl
hi
little
‘farazion was token along the coast with great
difficulty, the night c. suing on pitch dark, and the rain
rbev7:llt4.driaßefilliiirieghidtiPsoireafkClM'64l74uoseport3antritthhfeeeeii perilous podtiom
and sand drifting right in the face of men and homes.
Before the rocket apparatus c mil reach the spot the
vessel was bumping heavily against the rocks. Trod!.
signal to the shore by
and
eetrbt
ihi
praiseworthy
our e a: a lei
.gl iteig:nhffditt e
(lb° to uhtsaeL
d:showbe been
water,
tpatnh rmt hmaro4::cac rtki atteho:wisni apparatus
strikero
atthh ee
lightvessel.d .1 s
With
0.1.1
into position, and four rooketa in succession were fired,
with good am, right across Soo vessel. Bet it was
seen from the shore, by the aid of flare-up lights,
that the men in the rigging were eithor unable to
seize the linos or ignorant of their use. Moreover, as
each terrific wave vases I over the vessel, the number
of those seen in the rigging decreased. There was no
lifeboat within three or four miles, and even if there
had been one on the spot, to launch it and take off
the men from tha wreck in such • sea and daekneu
would have been impossible. When the hope of any
lime being saved was almost abandoned, the form of •
lad was seen close to the beach, and almost (turned'.
ately the men joined hands and embed into the water
and Lumped him, and found life was not extinct. A
man soon after also come ashore, but the watchers
waited in vain for the mime of any others. When
the two survivors were sufficiently recovered to speak,
it was learnt from them that their vessel was the
O. I. Jones, of Newport, owned by Messrs. Jones
Brothers, if that town.
At Dawliah eixteen bathing machines were either
swept out to sea or destroyed by dashing against the
ma wall. At &aroma a family, which were crossing
In a boat from Exmouth, hod • very narrow escape.
They, however, reached the sea wall, and had to be
=dover it out of their boat by ropes, the craft
oing immediately afterwards smashed. There
were 150 yachts in Dartmouth Harbour remaining
after the late regatta. Most of them sustained some
damage, and two or three am considerably injured, but
nose of any size was made • total wreck.
On Saturday evening • small vessel drove ashore at
Padstow, and one of the crew, John Williams. was
drowned, the remainder being washed ashore. Williams
might have been saved, but for some inexplicable
reason he did not seem to realise the danger of his
position until too late.
Two yachts that were moored off the beach at
&rabies. were blown ashore, and one of them was
completely smashed. During the greater part of the
night the Coastguard were buoy in saving boats and
other property, but several croft were blown upon the
shore and irretrievably damoveoi.
During Sattirday night and Sunday the storm raved
with great severity at Eutbeurne. The waves are
described as I aping thirty feet high at half tide. Part
of the East end of the t,,wo was flooded. The new
sea wall works and pier were damaged and the regatta
pavilion broken up by the sea, which washed over the
high walla Much excitement prevailed among the
thousan Is of spectators when the water satiated the
marine drives.
At Mount Batten, near Plymouth, thirteen Artillery-
men, stationed at 13ovioand Fort, attempted to hoist
their boats on shore, but they were oblige to abandon
the effort. Three, however, insisted on jnnaping into
the boat to save the paddles, but in endeavouring to
effort,
disappear.agett. her,tcet. pQ reach
a ch.
oeffha and
in
twdb . r eet thethird.brwsteps.
aht is
was c:Ta e:nanTuweor Two
seekingogrod„uimmediatelyelthat
ga
th ac .dlisel
e.d
oiseuntns,consent
ftfranticht.,,of.
and danger, Mt amid intense excitement, succeeded in
bringing one of the unfortunate men to gloom.
At Padstow • sand barge was amok within sight of
the shore and one of the two occupants was drowned,
his o,olllle being rescued fr au the mast, to which he
was clinging, by a gig's crew. At Hove the lower
promenades have been damaged. During the morning
• ketch, named the Hopewell, bound fir Portsmouth
wthaeos:: to be
Brighton. The crew were saved by the rocket
labouring in a terrible sea off Mevagissey, 0 'rowan,
a Pwranir ePtdhulichhmet ua
logger,:'ll evT ha
g ietsehs avne"tyß-lifeboatea lcc'bib:ile°atf
putt a ciN 824,°
afterward,shid onthetbiratvestli.e
Ica. plait
was
mantdhceren
of the clew. It Ir&P, not. however, until two hound
i Plymouthboat
gh p
stanchionsrockst, couldnA,l
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Aladdin
so.
nnsadnuoihodtntd.h.make:baininl
w withpa
fa
bulwarks,
Sunday:r e
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dot:
Plymouth
crew
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g_s eveningi
Thus • e b .
ob:bdey,
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bw
ioia. a
inb.obdti:l
collision t
hti
liungp
bowsprit
sui
Sunday,
:, were
burnt on Porthpean beach to indloote the best land-
Baochus was dashed on the rooks and went to pieces.
The schooner Aeron Quoen, of Atoerystwith, put into
an Italian barque.—The schooner Philanthropist put
sails, and in Plymouth Sound she slipped both her anchors. —Two gentlemen were rescued from the
yac--InThewitholgreser antdfoyro;aohtsfloodatinTgorotbeuayquasyuy.ffsered;
as
pot into that port, seriously darnaged.—At Moralist'
at
.ttaw whichl:
Idi r r the
she
wing,
seas
. I runsh:
dt owneda
de b.
the rowingaikr4geobn along
tdov
t be
rch Messrs.
al
:ehcoast, boat,liGreati e
and
wg I:lde' r ei traffic
c Westernks . m ti
oea
smashed-_A drifted
hwß e da i i
z.
Railwayhmi
against
much
i.n.
in
nf
ngrtshieedaetsrtavobirmoielendoceenptvashisiLed I:oda:eh:to:an, Eiaandtuwrhirae
caught
fituttoth:g:: it'ok
p•
iewcee: of
Some of the Bournemouth steamboats e
Into Poole Harbour. Daring the night damage amount of several hundred pounds d 00," sot° lb.
bathing machines west of Bourn ' mi.- ~,--ni
them Icing smashed into atoms, lith
pier'
---' —At Bwanage the lifeboat Charlotte pima put out be the yacht nada Us" °I that saditd beg wow in digines sad

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