Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-15 00:00:00

—the quarter-master at

Steady
At that moment breakers
gives were stopped and reversed full
speed. Before the ship got sternway she grounded her bow

up to h

th east course

were si

on the r

at Fresh Water Poin

ght miles from

got ready, when the

Passen

ked with but little eonfusion, the women

tors•werellien passed Out at the stern, the coal
)oard,. the forward boilers blown off, and

n made to get her off, but withont avail

captaii

. off a pil

.ot with Mr. Batterfield. to

"frepassey harbour to get assistance. -1]

o'clock, and

rapped heie, when th

steamers
racket were despatched immediately

less an

)re, and tents made to prot(
id lazzaree ei

visions

at they were

nt on shore. Boats were constantly pa

a mile, c

ing from the ship to the cove, about
ashore what could be saved. The fishermen plundered

the ship ; a hundred Of them came around upon b

the Sig:ll4l ZUT

ley cut away the masts and completely
'our o'clock, p.m., the ship filled, and

ix fathoms water,

The blmf,!

LOSS OF THE FLEE MOOD.

The schooner Kate Weston, Captain Ellis, which arrived
at New York, from Pernambuco, June 5, brought as
passenger Mr. Babson, first officer of the ship Fleetwood,
of Boston, which he reports was lost off Cape Horn May 4,
by coming in contact with an iceberg, causing the ship to
sink in a short time, and obliging the officers and crew to
escape in the boats. The Fleetwood, Capt. Dale, sailed
from Boston Feb. 9, with an assorted cargo for the Society
Islands, having, among other things, twenty-five nests of
boats, six in a nest. Nothing unusual happened until the
ship arrived off Cape Horn, when in lat. 60 deg. south,
lon. 71 deg. west,• while going twelve knots an hour, be-
fore a heavy northeast gale of wind, on- the night of the 4th
of May, the ship struck an iceberg which carried away her
bowsprit, stove in her bowt,' starting all the wood ends
forward, and leaving her in a sinking condition. The
pumps were sounded, when she was found to be leak-
ing• rery fast. The hatches were opened, and the
cargo broken out forward and thrown overboard, with the
hope of getting at the leak, as well as to lighten the vessel.
As it was found impossible to save the' ship in this way, the
captain ordered a portion of the crew' to work at the pumps,
while he. with the rest cleared away the beats, and made
preparations to loavc., the ship. The ship sank so fast there
was little, time for preparation, bat Mr. Babson states that
the boats were well rsappliei. Mr. Babson launched his
boat first, bat it had partially stove, 'and only four of the

crew, three men and a buy, w:IO3C names are not given, got

into it with bin. They then ~hoved off, at three o'eloekin

the morning, but remained is
daylight he . returned to the

ung swep

bulwarks gone

more o

'and th

Lit of the wreck

ship, and found every-

k, the houses

breaking over

Mr. Babson supposed that the captain took one or

the surf-boats, o

which. t

hey hac

several for th

Missionaries at the Nani-1, and that he escaped safely

from the ship,

le captain had with him his wife

in a delicate situation, and one child, there being also

n of the crew, la