The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-03 00:00:00

THE 'WRECK OF THE CAMERTON.

The Hull Packet furnishes the following authentic
particulars of the fatal wreck of the Camertoo, of which
the meet inaccurate account. have obtained currency:
The Camerton, the property of Messrs. W. and C. L.
Ringrose, of Hull, was a comparatively new screw steamer,
of 333 tuns register. She sailed from Hull on the evening
of Saturday, the 24th, between ten and eleven o'clock, for
Rotterdam, having a crew of about twenty men, and takiag
out ten or a dozen passengers, with a general cargo.
Nothing worthy of particular remark occurred on board
the vessel until she had got half across the German ocean,
between Newarp .light on the English coast, and Goeree
Island on the Dutch coast. It was then that she was first
struck by a heavy sea, that earned away the jolly boat,
and soon afterwards ll her canvas was blown away. This
was on Sunday evening, hour not precisely known. After'
that the Camerton continued her course, until those on
board saw the Goeree light, bearing S.S.E , and distant,
as well as could be judged in the darkness of the night,
about six or eight miles. Theism being then very high,
and the gale continuing, beating strong upon the coast,
Captain Cross considered that it would be extremely peri-
lous to attempt to cross the bar, which is at the entrance of
the river Meese ; he therefore hauled off to sea again. On
Monday morning (hour again not stated), the sorm con-
tinuing, the Camerton was struck by another sea, and lost
bowsprit, figure-heed, and bulwarks ; this caused her tore-
castle, and fore-compartment—about 15 to 20 feet in total
length, measuring from the stem—to fill with water. She
then laboured heavily till ten o'clock on Monday night,
when she foundered, Goeree lights bearing S.E. by S.,
about 14 miles distant. All the passengers were saved, and
the latest report was that all the crew were saved except-
ing the master, the second mate, and a seaman named Jubb.
The mate, by whom these particulars are imputed, stated'
that he spoke to Captain Cross, who was on the quarter'
deck, just as the yawl was going down, and desired him to
take charge of one of the two boats, and he, the mate, would
take charge of the other. The mate then leaped into the
boat, which was full of passengers and stokers, 14 in num-
ber, and then he heard the men in the other boat cry out
thet:they were full of water. The boats were then separated
by the sea, and that was all that the mate knew of the other
boat until reached Rotterdam • as he and his fourteen
fellow-sufferers were making for Rotterdam, they were
picked up by the screw steam-ship Natal, from
London, and brought into Rotterdam, on Tues-
day afternoon; the second boat had not been beard
of up to Wednesday moraiog, when the Norfolk left
Rotterdam, but she subsequently passed the remainder of
the crew in another steamboat going up to Rotterdam. This
was communicated to Hull the same afternoon by the sub-

by
marine telegraph. Captain Leetham of the Norfolk steam
ship states that the C■merton, having gone down i, sixteen
fathoms water, will be a total loss he passed some portion
of her cargo, including hogsheads of thread and cast's of
oil, floating on the sea, near to the place where she sunk,
but the sea was then too heavy for him to make any at-
tempt to save them.