The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-05 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE SCREW STEAMER " MARSHALL,"

WITH
ABOVE TWO HUNDRED SOULS,

On Thursday afternoon a rumour was yery current in
the town of Hull, that the Marshall, a steam screw-ship
of 300 tons, belonging to the Elbe-Humber Steam N-aviga-,
tion Company, and trading between Hull and Hamburgh,'
was lost, with a large number of souls on board. The
Marshall left Hamburgh on Saturday evening week. and the
Elbe on Sunday. She had .on board a large and. valuable
cargo, and upwards of 150 emigrants, besides her crew,
about 18 in number. She should, in the ordinary course of.
events, have arrived in Hull on Monday evening, but up to
3 p.m. on Friday sl..e had not made her appearance. On
Wednesday one of her boats was picked up in the North Sea
by a fishing-smack, named the Flirt, and it has been brought.
to Hull and landed. The crew .of the bark Woodhouse,
Captain Gatgens, from Stockholm, state that bet Ween ten
and eleven o'clock on Monday night last, the weather at the
time -being very thick and the night very dark, a screw-
steamer came in collision with their vessel near the Newsand
Float, just as she was making for the Humber. They
further state that they hailed the steamer, and asked her
name, but no reply was given ; and it is therefore supposed
that she must have gone down head foremost, and that the
passengers, who would be in their berths below at the time
of the collision met with a watery grave. The steamer first
struck the Woodhouse on the bow, and then swinging round
caught her on the stern. In making some repairs im-
mediately after the collision, a young man, named Edward
Burn belonging to the Woodhouse, fell overboard and was
drowned. It is reported that the crew of a Prussian vessel,
which has arrived at Hull, had heard on Monday night
cries of distress from a vessel at sea. At the time mentioned,
between ten and eleven o'clock, the Prussian had a narrow
escape from collision with a paddle-wheel steam-ship from
the south.

The Hull News of Saturday publishes the following ac-
count: —lt is with great regret that we have to record the
probable loss of another Hull steamer, accompanied by, it is
to be feared, a most lamentable loss of life.
The Marshall is a screw steamer, belonging to the Elbe-
Humber Steam Navigation Company, and traded between
this port and Hamburg, from which latter place she sailed
on Saturday last, with a large and valuable cargo, and as it
is thought, above one hundred and ninety emigrants. It
seems that the steamer got out of the Elbe on Sunday, and
was due in Hull on Monday evening, when she would have
arrived here in the ordinary course of her voyages.
Between ten and eleven o'clock on Monday night, the
Woodhouse, Captain Gatgens, was making the Humber on
a return voyage from Stockholm, laden chiefly with iron
and deals, and had reached, as was supposed, within about
three miles of the Newsand Float, off Spurn, when she
was struck in collision—violent and, sudden—by a screw
steamer. The night was very dark, and the weather
at the time excessively thick. From the statement ,of
the men on board the Woodhouse, we learn that their ship
was first struck on the bow, and then almost immediately
afterwards on the stern. She suffered considerable injury
both in her keel and on the starboard bow. Of course all
was confusion on board the Woodhouse, and an exclama-
tion wos made that the vessel was sinking, to which a reply
was given from the deck of the steamer, that the crew of the
other were to come on board. At the same time inquiries
were made as to the name of the steamer, but in the noise
and confusion, any reply, if reply was given, could not. be
heard. The vessels immediately parted, and the steamer
was seen no more, and the '`Woodhouse set about repairing
damages, as it was not exactly known, what damage she
had sustained. in the course of thiS work, we regret' to
add that the Woodhouse lost one of her hands ; Edward
Binns, a young man, while at work on one of the chains,
fell overboard and was drowned. The ship brought up in
the Hull roads on 'Wednesday night.
There is to much reason, to fear that, the Marshall has
gone down with all hands. Her non-arrival here, and the
entire absence of information as to her having put in else--
where, present every reason for supposing that she had gone
to the bottom. And this supposition is confirmed, if the
loss is not clearly proved, by the fact that the fishing-smack
Flirt, which arrived in Hull, on Thursday, brought with
her a boat which she had picked up. When about fifteen
miles off Dimlington, the crew of the smack descried a boat
water-logged floating about, and, on securing it, they found
that it bore the name of the Marshall. The gratings, oars
and crutches of the boat were washed away.
The same paper adds, if our information be correct, she
must had nearly 210 souls on board, as we are informed
that the number of emigrants was upwards of 190. One of
the river steamers has gone down to Spurn, with experienced
persons on board, if possible to arrive at any certain opinion
of this calamity.

[We learn ft:OM a gentleman of this town, a near relative
to Mr. Cortis, the agent at Hull to the company to which
" the Marshall" belonged, and who was at that port yester-
day (Sunday), that there is now not the slightest doubt that
" the Marshall" is lost. Two steamers had be,,n dispatched
from Hull, with a view of making a search for the vessel or
any of the crew. " The Marshall" left Hamburgh on the
29th ult. We are also informed that the above accounts. as
to the number' of emigrants on board the ill-fated vessel, are
much exaggerated, as it is very rare, particularly at this sea-
son of the year, that the Hamburgh vessels have put a large
number on board. The usual number is between 20 and 30.]

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