The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1863.

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TRE GALE.

The non-arrival of homeward bound ships at Gravesend
during the gales led to the most alarming apprehensions
for their safety. They were known to be near the shore,
and it was feared that they had been cast upon the dan-
gerous shoals which intersect the mouth of the Thames
below the Nore. Yesterday some:of them arrived in the
river, and bore evidence of the gale. The arrivals gave sad
intelligence of the destruction among ships which only a
few hours before had left the Thames. A large outward-
bound Australian ship, called the Fusileer, Capt, Cavasso,
with passengers and general cargo, bound for Port Phillip,
struck on the Girdler Sand, some 20 miles below the Nore.
Signals for assistance were shown, and the whole of the
passengers were saved, and landed at Ramsgate on Thurs-
day from a lifeboat. Another large ship called the Deme-
rara, Capt. Scovell, from London, bound for Greenock, was
lost on the Shingles, and the crew were also fortunate
enough to reach Ramsgate in safety. A third ship, the
Cornelia, outward bound, from Bremen, was wrecked on
the Goodwin Sands, and the fate of her crew is yet uncer-
tain. The brigantine Belle, Capt. Pyne, bound from London
for Algoa Bay, was driven from her anchors in the Downs
by the force of the hurricane, and drove athwart a steamer
carrying away her foretopmast, and the captain, chief mate,
and three men are missing. The second mate, one lady pas-
senger, one seaman, and two boys were only left on board
when the brigantine was fortunately picked up by the Na-
poleon steamtug, and a lugger called the Buffalo, of Broad-
stairs, which remained by her until the gale moderated,
and succeeded in towingthe disabled vessel into Ramsgate.
A large Calcutta ship, known as the Maxwell, to escape
being wrecked on the Goodwin, cut away her masts and so
averted her destruction. She is insured far upwards of
£70,000. A large fleet of vessels ara,rwrted to have sus-
tained damage by loss of chains and spare---eeveral have got
into Ramsgate, Dover, and adjacent places.
At Chatham the what blew with great violence from the
westward and northward up till nearly 12 o'clock on Thurs-
day night, when it fell, and the night became fine and clear.
The mercury rose rapidly until it reached last night 31.95
In the harbour all the vessels rode out the gale in safety
with their topgallantmasts struck and their yards pointed
well to the wind. While the storm raged the waves were
washed completely over the caissons at the entrance of the
docks, causing considerable inconvenience to those working
on board the ships under repair. Fears were entertained
that the roofs over some of the building slips would be de-
stroyed, but beyond some broken glass they escaped unin-
jured. The force of the wind when the gale was at its
height was 201 b. to the square foot.
At Lowestoft the steamer Norfolk, Capt. Bolland, from
Rotterdam for Harwich, with cattle, &c., in the service of
the Great Eastern Railway Company, was forced into the
harbour, having been blown to leeward of her port. She
came in in want of fuel, and with 25 sheep, four calves, and
one cow dead. The steamer, which experienced very heavy
weather, is discharging her cargo. The brig Herald, of
Whitby, Capt. Shaw,
with her until 9 from London for Hartlepool, in bal-
last, drove on the Mouse Sand about 5 p.m. on Thursday,
and commenced filling with water. The crew remained
p.m., when, as the vessel had nearly filled,
they took to their boat, and were picked up about midnight
by the schooner Pilot, of Goole, which brought them into
the Lowestoft Roads. The crew were landed by the tug
Powerful, and will be forwarded to their homes through
the agency of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Royal Benevolent
Society.
At Beccles a granary belonging to Mr. J. Crisp, near the
railway station, had one of its sides forced in, and a portion
of the roof blown off. Charles Oxborough, a bricklayer,
who haditaken shelter from the fury of the hurricane, was
killed, and a boy was seriously injured.
The various mail steamers between Southampton, Havre,
and the Channel Islands have been more or less retarded by
the violent weather. The South-Western Company's fine
new steamer Normandy, which was due at Southampton
from Jersey and Guernsey early en Wednesday evening, did
not arrive till between 8 and 9 o'clock on Thursday night.
She behaved admirably in this heavy weather, and on her
arrival in dock the passengers presented Capt. Harvey with
an address of thanks for "the sterling qualities of a true
British sailor displayed on this, one of the most terrific pas-
sages ever known between Jersey and Southampton." Dur
ing the voyage several large ships were passed, some laying
to and others running under bare poles, and some were no-
ticed with their topmasts gone.

At Portsmouth, last night, the gale had subsided in a
strong breeze from W.N.W., with the barometer slightly on
the rise at 29.40. The readings on the barometer there
taken at 10 a.m. for the past days have been as follows :
Dec. 1, 29.7 ; 2, 28'98 ; 3, 29.25, it having fallen to and
fallen from 29.52 in the intervening time ; Dec. 4, 30 38. In
this last reading it will be seen the mercury rose li-tenths
above an inch in 24 hours.
At Bristol, on Thursday, a stone weighing 141 b. was dis-
lodged from the tower of All Saints' Church, Corn-street,
and was blown down into a crowded thoroughfare; but for-
tunately without doing any harm. At Clifton a chimney
stack fell, killed a horse, and broke a waggon to pieces, but
the driver escaped. At Abbot's Leigh, near Bristol, a man
in the employ of Sir W. Miles, M.P., was at work in a ditch,
when a tree fell on him and fractured his legs. At Weston-
super-Mare the gale was very violent. The sloop Gleaner
went on shore at Breane, and became a total wreck. The
Mary had to run into Uphill, with sails torn to ribands, and
with loss of her boat ; and damage was also done to the
fishermen's boats in the bay.
The gale was so sudden at Watchet that three boats, with
two fishermen in each, went out in a comparative calm
about two miles to fish with cod nets. One of the boats,
however, was upset, and both men were drowned, while the
others experienced the greatest difficulty in reaching the
shore.
At Taunton 50ft, of a chimney 100 ft. high, erected at Mr.
Pollard's steam saw works, was blown down with a tremen-
dous crash, falling on and breaking in a workshop, in which
five men were at work. Two of them escaped, while the
other three were seriously injured.
At Birmingham the gale of Thursday did considerable
damage, and caused accidents by which many persons were
injured. At a manufactory in Birchall-street, a chimney
belonging to some premises adjoining was blown down and
fell through the roof of a warehouse, A man and several
women were injured. One unfortunate girl was dead when
extricated from the mass of bricks and other material. The
anemometer at the Midland Institute showed that the pres-
sure of the wind at 7 o'clock in the morning was 201 b on the
square foot ; a little before Bit had fallen back to 111 b ; at
9A it tlwo a4ss2i3t ba
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bs,o
and
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da f taetr
1120 iot h ,
clad oa again fallen
the
pressure
was
25111, full. It so remained for nearly an hour, and then gra-
dually declined. In the storm which occurred on the 21s t
of February, 1861, the greatest pressure of the wind in Bir-
mingham was 311 b on the square foot; but at that point it
appears the instrument was broken down by the violence of
the gust.
At Holyhead the storm appears to have been felt more
Avery,
boundhor age
early for Halifax,
Scotia, Thursday,
severely than on any other part of the coast. The Elizabeth,
of Liverpool,tia, w
aedr driven
fromptaiu
her anchorage
after drifting some time foundered near the eastern
shore of the bay. The coastguards from Holyhead went
round and made an effort to render aid by means of the
mortar apparatus, but were unsuccessful. The captain, se-
cond mate, and four of the crew saved themselves by cling-
ing to the broken timbers. The Elizabeth Morrow, from
Glasgow for Old Calabar, is stranded. Her crew of 19 were
saved during the night by the lifeboat. It depended upon
the weather whether she and time other ships lying
near her, whose names were not ascertained, would not be-
come total wrecks. The Westbeurne, Capt. Armitage, from
Liverpool for Honduras, having lost one of her masts, came
into collision with a bark in the same condition and sank:
The crew were seen from the ship Confluence, against which
the Westbourne ran, to take to the boat, but in a few minutes
the boat swamped, and all were drowned. The body of the
captain has been found. The Hibernia, from Workington
for Dublin, came in during the gale and cast two anchors.
Both cables broke and she was driven to the rocks on the
south side of the bay. She yesterday morning had not
broken up. Her crew waded to the shore at low water. The
Climax, f Fowey (?),
o , has run on the Salt Island. The
Industry, from Liverpool for Ostend, was abandoned by her
crew, but afterwards some of the men of the mail steamer
Connaught boarded her and brought her into port. The
Pearl, of Fowey (?), is wrecked. The crew were saved. The
fate of the Harmony, from AYr for Drogheda, and her crew
was remarkable. About 7 o'clock on Thursday night, she
was driven rapidly towards the lee shore. She passed close
to the end of the Great Eastern jetty, from which the mail
steamers take their departure, and in a moment four of the
for life, and reached the jetty. One boy
crew have a leap
only remained on board. About 2 o'clock on Friday morning
ghes, of the Anglesey police,
Constables Toohill and ID
were sent by the inspector along the shore to see whether
any persons might be in want of aesistance. They heard
the poor boy on board the Harmony hallooing for help. By
means of a rope they pulled him ashore through a tremen-
dous surf and in about 15 minutes afterwards the ship
,
broke in a thousand pieces. The mail steamer Leincester de-
layed her departure from 2 p.m. yesterday till 3 a.m. to-day,
when she received the night mail from London. Strenuous
and most successful exertions were made during Thursday
night by the lifeboat to save the lives in jeopardy. The
same lifeboat, manned by the same crew, brought 47 men
ashore from the different ships in the course of 12 hours.
The gale abated at Shields during Thursday night, and
yesterday the weather was bright and clear, with a fresh
wind
from the W.N.W. As the bar is in such excellent
condition through the improvements made tby the Tyne
Commissioners in the summer, the depth of water enables
laden vessels to sail much earlier in the tide than hereto-
fore, and from 6 o'clock yesterday morning until half-past
11 o'clock in the forenoon coal-ladeu vessels, mostly for
Louclou, were leaving the Pont as
fast as the steam tugs

could take them, and considerably over 200 sail of coal-
laden vessels got to sea in the course of the forenoon ; more
were to follow in the evening. The wind was very favour-
able to their making a very quick passage to London.
Some anxiety prevailed with regard to the rash and foolish
men who took their laden vessels out to sea on Wednesday
evening just as the gale was coming on. They would en-
counter very bad weather off the Yorkshire coast. The
wind has been off shore, and no casualties are reported to
have occurred upon the coast of Northumberland and Dar-
ham. On the Northumberland coast the fishermen are
are warned of impending storms by the admirable system
established by the Duke of Northumberland, who has
barometer stations in the principal fishing villages. Ad-
miral Fitzroy's storm warnings are also exhibited by the
officers of the Coast-guard on all the prominent headlands
between the Tyne and the seaport of Blyth.
The accounts and telegrams which came to hand yester-
day from distant continental ports describe the recent gale
as the most severe that has been experienced since the fear-
ful storm in 1857.