The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

THE GALE,

The two survivors of the crew of the collier brig
Thomas Barker have arrived in Shields, the vessel
having been run down, and the master and seven
of the crew drowned. The Thomas Barker, under
the command of Mr. Thomas Pyle, and with a crew
of nine hands, left the Tyne on Friday afternoon,
coal laden, for London. On Saturday, during the
height of the gale, and when about four miles from
Filey Bay, she was struck on the bow by the
Edith end Mary, of Sunderland, in ballast from
Southampton. The Thomas Barker went down
within a few minutes after she was struck, taking
with her the in Isier and seven of the crew. The
persons saved were William Walker, seaman, and
James Dickenson, apprentice. Walker at the time
of the collision was in the rigging, and he fortu-
nately succeeded in jumping on board the light
brig. Dickenson saved himself by running along
the jioboom of the Thomas Barker, and jump-
ing into the forechains of the Edith and
Mary, whence he was taken aboard that ves-
sel. The following is a list of the lost:—
Robert Pyle, master ; Richard Embleton, mate;
Thomas Dennale, cook ; the carpenter, whose name
was not known yesterday ; Thomas Sunnex and
John Bannerman; another seaman, who was at the
helm when the vessel went down, and whose name
is not known, and James M'Donald, apprentice.
The vessel belonged to Messrs. Thomas Barker and
Sons, South Shields, and was uninsured. The
schooner Triumph, of Brigham, arrived in the Tyne
on Tuesday. The master reported that while off
the Leman and Omer lightship on Sunday, and
while the crew were below atdinner Neil Campbell,
an ordinary seaman, who had been left at the wheel,
disappeared, but whether he had thrown himself
overboard, as he was in a desponding state of mind,
or was accidentally drowned, the master could not
tell. The vessel that the steamboats have in tow in
a capsized condition off the Tyne is the Victoria,
from Hull, a Danish bark. She had been coming
from Null on Friday in tow of the Robert Scott
tug, when she struck upon Whine() Rocks, and,
having slid off the reef, she capsized and
floated out to sea. The master, his wife,
and crew were rescued by the steamtug
and brought to the Tyne. The steamboats
could not get the derelict into Shields har-
bour on Tuesday night, it ie thought, on account
of the masts touching the bottom. They will have
to be broken off in some manner before the vessel
ca❑ be got into the harbour. Oa Saturday a number
of light and laden vessels were blown to the north
of the Tyne, and found shelter behind the Coquet
and Fern Islands. On Tuesday night, as the wind
got well from the northward, they would be enabled
to make their passage south again. A good deal of
anxiety had been occasioned in Shields since Satur-
day through the reprehensible practice of taking
vessels to sea without their full complement of
hands en board, the vessel lying in the offing until
the master or mate gathers together the remainder
of the crew in the public-houses in the town. A
laden bark was taken out thus on Friday evening,
short of hands, and the master returned to Shields
in a steamboat, leaving an owner of a steamboat
and the pilot on board the vessel with the mates
and such of the crew as had gone off with her. The
ship was blown off the land during the night, and
had not cast up on Tuesday.