The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-01 00:00:00

TATTERSALL'S.—THIS EVENING.
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METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.

400 to 10 each laid apt Kick-up-the-Dust, Elthiron,
and Follow-me-Lads.

TWO THOUSAND GULNEAS.
50 eyen between Vortex aad Clayerhouse.
5 to 1 offered on the field.

LOWESTOFT HARBOUR.
REPORT OF THE HARBOUR MASTER.
Lowestoft Harbour, Nov. 28, 1851.
Sir,—Herewith I enclose a copy of our Shipping
Report for this week, and beg leave particularly to
call your attention to the increasing advantage taken
of this port as a harbour of refuge by vessels damaged
or disabled, by loss of anchors or spars, from either
proceeding on their voyage or remaining in the road-
stead.
The completion of the outer works and entrance of
our harbour, and the deepening of the water space
inside have afforded so safe and easy an access at all
times of tide, that a very large and increasing number of
vessels now avail themselves of it as a place of security
and shelter from contrary gales, or as a safe retreat
when in distress.
Already the number of vessels seeking refuge here
is considerably beyond the accommodation we are
capable of affording without materially interrupting
the trade and commerce of the port, and this has now
become a subject of very grave consideration, for as
the place becomes better known, and the ease and
facility of access better understood, and last, although
not least, the low rate of dues—our only charge for
vessels being 2d. per ton on the registered tonnage of
the vessel—it will follow, as a matter of course, that
the port will be more frequented, and additional ac-
commodation must be provided.
We have, at this moment, 250 sail of vessels in the
inner harbour, the greater part of which have put in
for refuge ; and more than 50 sail have lost anchors
and cables, or met with other loss or damage. The
harbour is so crowded that it is impossible to get
vessels arriving with cargoes up to the wharves to
discharge ; and two large timber-laden vessels had to
remain several days in the outer basin, thereby in-
curring demurrage on the importers ; and, in addi-
tion to this, 20 sail now at anchor in the roads wish
to put in, but for which we have no space, and the
tide flag 'has been struck to denote the same.
When we consider that there is no part of the coast
of Great Britain where a harbour of refuge is so
much required as at this place—that a greater num-
ber of vessels pass the East coast of England than
any place in the world—that the entrance of our
harbour is in the midst of one of the best and most
frequented anchorages on the coast—that many ves-
sels which have found a shelter here (even during the
past week) must inevitably have been lost had there
been no harbour here, and that, even now, we have
not room to accommodate the number of vessels wish-
ing to avail themselves of its shelter, it becomes, as I
have before observed, a subject of very serious con-
sideration.
Take, as an example, the experience of the past
week. On Friday, the 21st, it was estimated that no
fewer than 700 sail of vessels were anchored, wind-
bound, in the roads between Lowestoft and II ar-
mouth ; a light air in the morning from the S.W.
tempted the greater part of the vessels anchored in
the South Roads to get under weigh and proceed to
the northward ; about 30 sail also left this harbour
for the same purpose ; not one of these had cleared
Yarmouth Roads before the wind came round again
to the north, and at night it came on to blow a furious
gale from the N.N.E ; the consequences may be easily
imagined, and are truly stated in the Yarmouth re-
port annexed. Two vessels foundered at their anchors,
and several were dismasted, besides a greater number
parted or slipped from their anchors.
The following morning no less than 50 sail of ves-
sels, many of large tonnage, and the greater part
with some loss or damage, put into this harbour,
several with loss of masts or spars, and most with loss
of one or both anchors.
The following night the wind shifted and blew a
gale from the S.S.E. Under these circumstances,
what chance would most of these vessels have bad
could they not have got into a harbour here ; light in
ballast, crippled and disabled on a lee-shore, without
anchors and cables ? Why, sir, the greater part must
have been driven on shore and wrecked.
The harbour being thus invaluably necessary to the
saving of lives and property, it follows, as a natural
reply, that all that is required is to increase the space
and accommodation inside, in order to render its use-
fulness more complete ' • and that this can be done at
no very great outlay, I have already explained. But,
however desirable such an increase undoubtedly is, it
is my duty to explain, that to make harbour space for
accommodating vessels for refuge only at the present
small dues, would not repay the outlay ; nor can it
be expected that a larger sum than 2d. per ton can or
would be paid by vessels for this purpose.
But there are cases, such as that of the Latona,
and several others now in the harbour, where the
vessels have been saved from total wreck by being
brought in here, when 2d. per ton is quite inadequate
to the value of the refuge afforded. It becomes,
therefore, a public question, in which the country is
interested , and I beg to urge upon your serious con-
sideration to take such steps as shall appear best suited
to meet the difficulty in question.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

(Signed) W. S. ANDREWS, Harbour Master,
S. M. Peto, EN., M.P.

(Extract from the Shipping Report in the Norwich
Mercury of the 29th of November, 1851.)
The following is an authorised statement of the
ships, with their damage, which hava entered the
Harbour of Lowestoft for safety, or been brought in,
during the last three weeks. These speak niore than
words the value of that port as a harbour of refuge.
Among them will be seen a vessel drawing 20 feet of
water :

The Scotia, Stevens, from Stettin for Rotterdam, with
damage.
The Oberon, Gohibandt, from Liverpool for Dantzic,
with loss of canvass, &c.
The Ardincaple barque, Leighton, from Sunderland
for Amsterdam, leaky.
The Sythe, Briggs, from Sunderland for London, as-
sisted off the Holm sands, leaky, by the beachmen, and
towed into the harbour by the Company's tug.
The Protheroe, Gales, from London for Shields, with
loss of main-boom, &c., and for ballast.
The Jane and Maria, Kennedy, from London for New-
castle, with loss of anchor, and windlass damaged.
The Lester, Emery, from London for Seaham, with
loss of anchors.
The Eliza Jane, Dyer, from London for Middlesbre',
with loss of anchor and chain, damage, &c.
The Cornelius, Smith, from London for Newcastle,
damage. having been in contact.
The Mayville, Berkeley, from Zante for Leith, damage,
having been athwart-hawse in the roads.
The Tees, Winspear, from Grimsby for Shields, with
loss of both anchors.
The Jessie Easson, Petrie, from Rotterdam for Har-
tlepool, with loss of both anchors.
The Lady of the Lake, Allen, from Humber to Sea-
barn, with loss of both anchors.
The Falcon, Gronow, from London for Newcastle,
with loss of both anchors.
The Veroaica, Brodie, from London for Newcastle,
with loss of anchor and chain in Hollesley Bay.
The Collingwood, Burtonshaw, from Rye for Sunder-
The Eliza, been in contact in the roads.
an ,
The Mary,
d damage,
shhavairnpge,
from London for Seaham, with
windlass damaged.
lose Page, from London for Hartlepool, with
°I anchors.
The
Crabtree, from Ipswich for Leeds, assisted
in by beachesen
The Elias, Jones, from Port /gado() for Lynn, with
damage.
The Agen"a, Flanders, from London for Newcastle,
with loss of main-boom. Prince steame-s—.F ler, from Antwerp for Lon-
don, put in for coal, gig
The ow
Hartle-
pool, with damage annaallo°ansi
The Earl Grey, Thompson
by the Harbour c,„.,„„v,
The Jane, Matelif, from 140——'
off from
hLondonor,
tow feodr
fromH ar t loeff-
adon for Sunderland, with
loss of anchor and mainm •
a tug..
Wit, in Yarmouth Roads,hav-
ingyarttee for
been in contact.
The Felicity, Jackson, from Rochs
with loss of anchor and chain in
The Minerva. Robinson, from Littlmehottumthp
Hartlepool,
from London for
Sun-
derland, with damage.
The Arab, White, from London, of
of bowsprit. Whitby, with loss
vvh.
,tßonoafodrs.The Highland Chief, Mc Millen,
Newcastle, with damage.
The George and Eliza, Turgoise, from London for
Lynn, with loss of bowsprit.
The Queen, Owen, from London for Hartlepool, with
damage.
The Three Brothers, Kundsor, from Harwich for
Tonsberg, iu want of ballast.
The Friendship, Wood, from Bridport for Hartle-
pool, assisted in with loss of both anchors.
I The Hebe, Graham, from London for Newcastle, with
loss of anchor in 'Yarmouth Roads.
The Tyneside, Gasket, frem London for Shields, with
loss of anchor in Bnrlington Bay, assisted from Cotton
Roads by the Harbour Company's tug.
The Latona barque, Clarke, from Quebec for Hull,
. assisted off the sand by the Southwold life boat's crew,
. water-logged; the crew having with difficulty escaped in
their boats. The ship bent over the sand, and grounded
in the channel on the ebb-tide; on tho flood, with the
assistance of the Harbour Company's tugs Royal Albert
and Pursuit, and with great exertions, she was brought
into the outer harbour, drawing 20 feet of water.
From the 3d to the 22d inst. 240 sail of vessels have
entered the harbour for refuge, &c.

GARDEN ALLOTMENTS FOR WORKING MEN.—The
glebe lands belonging to the vicarage of Ormskirk, situate
below the church, and extending from the Green-lane to the
Southport-road, are now marked out into garden allotments
of halt a rood each, statute measure, which the Rev. W. E.
Rawstorne, vicar of the parish, purposes letting to deserving
ng men, at 13.5. per
annum each, free of all rates and
taxes. The following prizes are intended to be given to the
tenants yearly :—For the best cultivated allotment, 135.;
second best, 7c.; for the best garden produce, prizes to the
amount of lh— Liverpool Mercury.