The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1864.

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of Whitby, timber laden—was wrecked on the breakwater
on Sunday morning. The master and crew were in great
danger of perishing, as the sea was washing over the ship
in a manner that brought dread into the stoutest heart.
The master and crew of the cutter of the Princess Royal
were soon present with Manby's apparatus, and succeeded
in taking the sailors of the Eliza Hall safely ashore. The
vessel was broken to pieces, and the timber was floating about
in the afternoon. To the west side of Granton pier three
small ships, three lighters, and three boats went ashore,
though they had been riding or moored within the space
protected by the west breakwater of the bat hour. They
are not likely, hawever, to suffer severely. At the outer
side of the west breakwater of Grantee Pier, the schooner
Victoria, of Middleforth, Denmark, in ballast, was driven
ashore on Saturday night. As soon as she struck, the
master and crew endeavoured to leap on the breakwater to
save their lives. All succeeded except one sailor, who fell
as soon as he had lighted on the slope of the breakwater,
and before he could regain his footing a heavy wave came
and washed him away. His body has not been recovered.
It is hoped the vessel will be got off. Two or three hundred
yards further west lies a large foreign brig, driven ashore
during the night. Her masts are gone, her bottom is seri-
ously damaged, and it is almost certain she will become a
total wreck. She was in ballast. The crew escaped. Still
further west, near Granton quarry, another large foreign
brig is ashore on the rocks. One of her masts is gone, and,
from the dangerous position she is in, it is almost certain
she will not hold long together. She was coal laden. The
crew got safely ashore. We have not been able to ascertain
the names of the two last vessels. The tackling and sea-
men's clothing of all the wrecked vessels, with the excep-
tion of the last, will be partially if not wholly secured. Men,
horses, and carts, were engaged on Sunday afternoon driv-
ing away such things as could be landed.
Out from Granton there were four ships riding in ap-
parent safety. their anchors having caught hold of the
electric telegraph cable across the Firth, which prevented
them drifting further towards shore. But for the circum-
stances of their anchors holding on by the cable, two, if not
the whole four vessels, would have drifted on the rooks
west of Granton Pier.
None of the English or foreign going steamers have
sailed from Leith since Friday.
A telegram was received in Leith on Saturday that the
Cronstadt, of Leith, on her passage from Russia, had been
compelled to put into Mandel, after being out in a gale, in
which she had lost her first mate. No small anxiety is felt
for other ships known to be out at sea. Yesterday evening,
there were about twenty vessels in the roads; but as they
were all far from land, except the four vessels whose anchors
were attached to the electric telegraph cable, it was hoped
they would weather the gale. It is many years since such
a severe storm has raged in the Firth.
During Friday night or Saturday a foreign brig went
ashore near F:sherrow. When the tide went bank, the
crew were enabled to come to land in safety. The vessel
having been exposed to the full force of the storm yester-
day, became a total wreck.
THE STORM IN THE FORTH YESTERDA.T.

At daybreak yesterday the appearance of the Firth was
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termined to face the raging elements, and went on board
the Express, the experience of the captain of which no
doubt strengthened their belief regarding their safety.
Before the starting of the vessel from Granton a number
of the passengers became terror-stricken when they beheld
the waves bursting against the breakwater and dashing in
cataractic foam across the bulwarks. The most dangerous
part of the journey was the getting out of the harbour, but
by the skilful seamanship of the captain this was most sue.
cessly accomplished. The vessel was then steered towards
Inchkeith, in face of a head wind, during which time it
was tossed so violently that most of the passengers became
perfectly helpless from sickness, and those who had the
good fortune to brave the tempest were in great doubts as
to the safe arrival of the Express on the Fife coast. After
passing Inchkeith, it was necessary to steer against a cross
current for Burntisland Harbour, and the rocking and toss-
ing of the vessel then became so violent that the whole of
those on board, excepting the captain, who stood manfully
on the bridge, were compelled either to take shelter in the
saloon, or stand on the lee side of the cabin. Fortunately,
after an hour and a halt's sail, the Express was moored
safely alongside of Burntisland harbour, where a number of
people had been congregated for a comiderable time watch-
ing her perilous trip.
Although the wind raged with great violence during the
day, it was not sufficient to stop the afternoon ferry traffic,
nor to cause so great consternation among the passengers as
it did among those who, at great hazard, crossed from
Granton with the morning boat.
Ao a rumour wao oproad in town yostorday ovoning that
a Newhaven fishing-boat had gone down, with six men on
board, we are glad to state, from inquiries made in New-
haven at a late h-ur last night, that there is no foundation
for such a rumour.

Last night a rumour was current in several quarters in
town that the Wick, Aberdeen, and Granton steamer the
Vanguard, which was to sail from Lerwick on Friday
morning, had been lost. The steamer was due at Granton
on Saturday, and had not arrived at a late hour last night;
but the result of the inquiries we made yesterday inclines
us to believe that, beyond the delay—which may have been
caused by the vessel putting into some port on the coast, a
not unfrequent occurrence on this passage in stormy wea-
ther—there is no foundation for the report.
The rain and wind continued throughout the whole of
yesterday with great violence, but about 10 o'clock last
night a change for the better took place. The wind fell,
the rain ceased, and there was every token of more propi-
tious weather.

DUNBAR.-WEECK OF A DANISH VESSEL AND LOSS OF

FOUR MEN.

Our Dunbar correspondent writes :—" On Friday night
the temperature fell rapidly, and the wind began to blow
from the eastward with great violence. The storm con-
tinued to rage throughout the whole of Saturday wits a
fury seldom experienced even on this coast, where severe
storms are by no means rare. The rain fell in torrents all
day, and the streams in the neighbourhood were roaring
from bank to brae, and bearing down trees, brushwood,
and agricultural produce from the uplands in great quan-
tities. At 'West Barns, the Biel water threatened to inundate
the lower portion of the village, and a number of the houses
were overflowed. The garden surrounding the farm-house
was completely under water, which flowed right through it,
and rushed down the streets in a threatening stream. All
along the coast the sea rose to a tremendous height, and as
far as the eye could penetrate through the mist and spray
it seemed but one wild mass of raging foam. Yesterday
the storm continued with unabated violence; and such was
the force of the wind that the white foam of the sea was
blown like snow flakes, thick and fast, for fully half a
mile inland. About 6 o'clock yesterday morning a foreign
vessel was observed at Linkheads, near Thorntonloch, in a
very critical position. Intelligence was conveyed to the
coastguard here, who under the management of Mr Mor-
gan, chief boatman, hurried to the spot with all the neces-
sary apparatus. Unfortunately, however, they arrived too
late, the ship having broken up about 20 minutes previous
to their arrival, and only one man was saved out of five of a
crew. The vessel was a Danish one, bound for Leith with a
cargo of wheat, and it broke up a short time after striking.
With reference to the loss of the crew of this vessel, the pre-
ventive force complain that so much time was lost in send-
ing the message to the station here. It was conveyed by a
man on foot, the distance being upwards of six miles,
whereas had a horse been sent, and the man and apparatus
been half an hour sooner, the crew would in all probability
have been saved. No sooner had the coastguard returned
from Thorntonloch than they were summoned to the assis-
tance of another vessel which had stranded on Tyne Sands.
Lieut. Hamilton and the whole force was speedily on the
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sacrament, which should have been dispensed in the Esta-
blished Church yesterday, was postponed for a fortnight."

culty in getting up or down the Clyde, and many of them
passed without touching here. We have not heard of any
lives being lost, although a vessel is reported to have been
seen in the Channel bottom up.