The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-16 00:00:00

Dreadful Sufferings of a Ship's Crew.

On Saturday the Anchor Line steamer Caledonia arrived
at the Tail of the Batik from New York. She had on board
three of the crew of the brig Ayrshire Lass, of Ardrossan,
which vessel the Caledonian fe 1 in with about 7 p.m. on the
9th inst., in latitude 55 N. longitude 13 W. with a flag of
distress flying. A boat was immediately sent on board the
brig from the steamer, when it was found that the Ayrshire
Lass was a complete wreck and water-logged. The sur-
vivors of the crew of the brig were only three in number,
and were very much exhausted. They were accordingly
sent on board the Caledonia, and the second officer of the
steamer, with a number of men, were left on board the brig,
The Caledonia then took the Ayrshiro Lass ha tow. Mr
Brown, mate of the Ayrshiro Lass, states :—We left
Miramichi on the 26th September, with a cargo of deals,
bound for Ardrossan, and had proceeded on our passage,
all well, till the forenoon of Sunday, the 23d October, in
latieude 54 30 N. latitude 11 20 VT., when the vessel was
struck on the starboard bow with a heavy sea, which
threw her over on her beam ends. The captain and two
of the crew were below in the cabin asleep at the time,
and were drowned. After the vessel had been on her
beam ends for about half an hour, the mate managed to
cut away the main topmast backstay, which allowed the
main topmast to break away, and it carried away the
foremast close to the deck. The vessel then righted. The
decks were clean swept of everything ;and all the beef and
water we had on board, being on the deck, was therefore
lost. The cabin was filled with water and the vessel water.
logged. Next day, Monday, we managed to hook up a
small bag of biscuits from the cabin. They were quite
soft, having been in the water for 28 hours. On the nest
Monday the biscuits were about done. Then we killed the
dog, and on it we survived, with a very small portion of
biscuit for other ten days. On the 9:h, at two p.m. we
had finished the dog, and had nothing to eat, thus having
been 17 days on the wreck. At seven p.m. on the same
night we wore picked up by the Caledonia. Last Sunday, a
barque, supposed to be a foreigner, passed us, and although
they saw our signals, no attention was paid to them. Last
Saturday we got the bodies of Capt. James Grant, and one
of the crew, named Andrew Hudson, out of the cabin and
buried them at sea. The body of the other seaman, named
Lawrence Smith, was never seen." The Ayrshire Lass, as
she lies at the Tail of the Bank. is a complete wreck. The
bulwarks are carried away on both sides, and the foremast
is clean away by the deck. The cabin furniture is all
broken up. The jibboom is broken away, and all the fore
chains are bent up.—Greenock Telegraph.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 12. A handsome new
paddlesteamer, named the Brittany, Capt. J. Good-
ridge, 525 tons burden and 250 horse power, built for the
South Western Company by Messrs. Ash and Co., of
Cubitt-town, and engined by Mr J. Stewart, of Blackwell,
was officially tried at the measured mile in Stokes Bay on
Friday. Immersed to her lull seagoing capacity, and with
very strong winds blowing, she realised an average speed
of 14 knots, or 16 statute miles per hour ; after which she
was taken for a run out into the Channel, ten miles beyond
the Nab Light, during which an accelerated speed was ob-
tained of 17 miles per hour. The Brittany is built in several
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compartments, which adds to to her safety n case of any
portion of the ship filling with water, and is supplied with
all the latest improvements in steamship building. The
Brittany will leave on her first voyage to the Channel
Islands next Wednesday night, and will work that station
generally with the Normandy and Southampton. The corn•
pany's steam fleet now comprises ten vessels, severally en-
gaged in the service between this port end the Channel
Islands, Havre, &c.
TREASURE TROVE.--It may be remembered that
two labouring men, when digging in a gravel pit at Stocker-
ston in Juno last, found a jar containing 62 gold coins, The
coins were forwarded to the Treasury, On Tuesday last
Mr Goodyer, the chief constable of the county, having re-
ceived instructions from the Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury, paid the fortunate finders the sum of
£55 135.92,, being the value of the treasure.—.Leicesecr
Torrotal,