The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-02 00:00:00

Collision off the Lizard.

About 9 o'clock on Wednesday night the schooner
British Queen, of Plymouth, Adams, master, with

coals from Newport to Yealm, came into collision
with the schooner Emblem, of Low-, Bartlett,
master, with copper ore, the weather being thick
and the night very dark. At once it was discovered
that the British Queen was in a sinking state, as

she was fast filling with water. Both vessels were
in close contact for some minutes, and the master
and mate of the British Queen got aboard the Em-
blem; but in the consternation and darkness it was
scarcely possible to know what bad best be done.
The boat of the British Queen was lowered and four
men got into her, and also three men from the Em-
blem ; but it was now found there was no painter
to the boat, and she was soon half filled with water.
Jost then the fishing lugger Naomi, of Newlyn,
Thos. Carter, master, from Plymouth, came along-
side, and took the boat in tow. The British Queen
went down in five minutes, and everything in her
was lost. Two or three of the men were in their
berths with scarcely any clothes on. The Emblem
struck the British Queen on the starboard bow and
stove her in, carrying away her bulwarks, stan-
chions, &c. The men were obliged to jump into the
sea to reach the boat. One man had on only a pair
of drawers and a Guernsey frock, and neither shoes,
stockings, nor cap. The Naomi followed the Em-
blem a short distance and spoke to her, the crew
of the latter replying that they believed they we!e
all right, but this is doubted. The Naomi's hawser
parted through the violence of the'weather, and the
boat was lost. The poor weather•beaten fellows
reached Penzance about half-past one at midnight,
and had great difficulty in getting into the pier,
as the tide was low and a heavy sea was running
at the time. The next morning Mr. Ludlow,
honorary secretary to the Shipwrecked Mariners'
Society, fed and clothed the men, and sent them by
railway to their several homes at Plymouth and
Lone. This makes 63 seamen forwarded to their
destination by rail from Penzance by the society
during December 1863. It was hoped the Emblem
might have arrived at Falmouth, but on inquiry by
telegram it was found that no such vessel was in
the harbour, or near, at 1 p.m. yesterday. The
names of the men landed at Penzance from the
British Queen are John Matthews, Edward Clarke,
Henry Shipley, and William Collins—From the
Emblem—Edward Scantlebury, mate, Thomas
Stevens, and Samuel Good. Carter, the master of
the Naomi, ought not to go unrewarded, as he lost his
hawser, and throughout exposed his own boat and
himself to considerable risk in bringing the seven
destitute men safe to Penzance. The men
themselves were full of grateful expressions,
and the Emblem's men were very cad at
what they feared mnst be the loss of
their ship and the men on board. All declared
that as it was they had a fearful struggle for life,
the captain of the sinking ship begging them to
jump into the sea to the boat, and he being the last
man to leave her, only a few moments before she
went down. Had they stopped to save even their
clothes they must have been lost. The collision
occurred just outside the Stag Rocks. The first
report of the occurrence, from a Penzance corre-
spondent, was as follows—" The schooner British
Queen, Adams, of Plymouth, from Newport for
Yealm, with coals, was run into by the schooner
Emblem, of and from Lone, for Port Talbot, with
copper ore, off the Lizard, on Wednesday night.
The British Queen immediately weut down. Her
captain and mate got on board the Emblem, and,
it is supposed, pr weeded to Falmouth. The mate of
the Emblem and two of her crew got on board
the British Queen, and with four of the crew
of the latter vessel were picked up in the ship's
boat by the Mount's Bay fishery lugger, Naomi,
Carter, from Plymouth, and landed at Penzance,
yesterday morning. The names of the men are
as follows :—From the British Queen, John Nea•
thens, E. Clark, W. Collins, and Henry Shapcott.
From the Emblem—Ed wiu Seentlebury, Samuel
Good, and Thomas Stevens."—lVesiern Morning
News,