The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-29 00:00:00

Pratei OP THE. ATIET ROKOMAN.

On the 14th inst. a report was made to the Commander-
in-Chief of the Indian Navy, that a ship had been wrecked
est the island of Kcnery on Tuesday morning. The vessel I
moved to be the Atict Rohoman, belonging to the Bybee of
Cannadore, bound to Bombay from Jcdna and Mocha,
with 300 pilgrims and a quantity of treasure, coffee, and
malt, on board. Five days previous they had made Kcnery,
and stood in for the harbour. Before sunset the light-
house was seen. Signals were made, which were answered
from the outer light ship. Shortly afterwards a very
heavy squall came on, rind the nocodo, finding his vessel
drifting in shallow water, let go hie anchors. In the
middle of the night, the ship labouring and rolling very
much, lost her rudder; soon after this the cable parted, and
she drove on to the island of Kenery. Daylight found the
bottom of the vessel gone, and the remains of the wreck
driven up alongside the fort walls—all the °oats broken or
washed away. Many of the passengers stepped from the
vessel on to the walls, but numbers were cast into the
sea and drowned. The Medusa steamer, in command of
Lieut. King, with Mr. Norman Oliver, first assistant master
attendant, on board, and two pilot boats in tow, was imme-
diately despatched to Kenery to render assistance. She
returned on the 15th, bringing with her about 175 souls,
and treasure to the amount of half a lukh of rupees.
Nearly 17:5 of the pilgrims are missing, rind have, it is to be
feared, met a watery grave. This is another instance of the
awful sacrifice of life occurring from a vessel being lost for
want of sails, anchors, &e., and the absence of efficient
officers to manage her. The sails of the Atiet Itohoman
were blown away, and there were no others to replace
them, and she appears to have been sadly deficient in
anchors. Why do we not legislate to prevent such instances
as these of want of proper officers and stores ? The vessel
was a total wreck when the Medusa left, and there was
still a large quantity of treasure in the water near the
island. After the above was in type we received the
following letter, the writer of which has out best thanks:
ALII1A1:611, JUNE 12, 11411.-1 have just returned from
ThuU, having gone thither to render medical assistance,
&c., to a few people who had come on shore on pieces of
plank, &c. It appears from the account I gut from one of
the men saved, that yesterday morning the ship or brig
Atict Itohoman, a vessel built at Cochin, was making for
Bombay, when she drifted on the reef of rocks near the
island of Kenery, four miles from this, and went almost im-
mediately to pieces. 11cr anchor broke away, and she also
unshipped her rudder previous to striking 'on the rocks. I
letve counted Si dead bodies lying on the beach between
Thull and Kheim, chiefly women. The total number on
board, according to the account I received, was about 400
pilgrims and 7d Lascars, &c. Four men and two
women have come ashore between this and a place called
Amos, two miles below Khans, and a boat has been sent out
to the islands of Mowry and Kenery to look for any persons
that may have got ashore on them.