The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-22 00:00:00

THE GREAT GALE.

MORE CALAMITOUS LOSSES.

Upwards of 100 wrecks and casualties were posted
on the loss-book at Lloyd's in the course of yester-
day and the preceding day, and the telegrams which
keep coming in from the various outports furnish a
sad addition to the already long catalogue of dis-
asters. Scarcely any portion of the coast seems to
have escaped the fury of the storm.

A large ship with a valuable cargo was entirely
lost during the height of the gale on Sunday night,
on the Kentish Knock, some few miles below the

entrance to the Thames. The Fyenoord, screw
steamer, Capt. Vaut Hoft, which arrived in the river
yesterday morning from Rotterdam, reports that
about 7 o'clock on the previous (Monday) morning
a large ship was seen on the Knock. The Fyenoord
at once bore up, and the ill-fated vessel was at once

discovered to be the barque Penningham, Capt. W.
Patten, from Jamaica to London. She was fast
going to pieces, and the steamer had just time to
rescue the captain, his wife, pilot, and all on board,
and brought them to London. In the S win and
adjacent channels the shipping suffered severely.
The schooner Thrifty, bound to Rouen, with a cargo
of iron from Grangemouth, was wrecked on the
Long Sand, and it is reported that the wives of
the captain (Trueman) and the mate perished.
One of the large ships which was observed to
drive from her anchors and pass away has been
heard of. She proves to have been a large timber
ship called the Sir Allan INl‘Nab, from Quebec to
London. The fury of the gale having caused her
to part from her cable, she was driven on to the op-
posite (French) coast, where she became a wreck.
The crew succeeded in landing at Dunkirk, and
were sent on to Ostend. Another of the ships which
drove, the Elizabeth, from London, for Belize, for
the safety of which great fears were entertained, has
been reported as being off the the North Foreland,
in charge of boatmen. Ramsgate harbour is getting
crowded with shipping, which have met with

damage in the gale, and have put in to repair. The
loss in anchors and chains is something prodigious.
Respecting the shocking shipwreck which took
place in Chale Bay at the back of the Isle of Wight,
the Rev. Mr. Theobald, of Chale Rectory, has for-
warded a letter to Lloyds, communicating some par-
ticulars of the catastrophe. It appears that the ship
Lotus, from Demerara to London, sighted St. Ca-
therine Light about 10 o'clock on Saturday night,
the wind blowing heavy S and by E. About 20 mi-
nutes afterwards the crew wore ship, but finding
that they could not keep her course and were driv-
ing in, endeavoured to wear again, but could not,
and in the course of five minutes or so she struck
upon the rocks, and of those who were on board
only two were saved. She was a large class vessel,
and had a valuable cargo. The names of those who
were drowned were—Wm. M'Neil, master; Richd.
Watt, chief mate; William Henderson, second
mate; Mr. E. Murray, of Dublin, a passenger ; Peter
Montgomery, steward and cook ; Hugh Ferguson,
carpenter ; Robt. Paterson, Neil Durrock, Wm.
Lamb, John Kelly, Michael Matthews, and Wm.
Dunkin. The other ship Ellen Horsfall, from Alex-
andria to Sunderland, which also struck upon the
same section of coast on the Isle of Wight, has be-
come a total wreck, and her cargo washing out.
A melancholy tale of the scenes which were wit-
nessed in the vicinity of Orfordness has been sent up
by Lloyd's agent. The wind blew with terrific force
from SW during the night, and about 11 o'clock the
Good Intent, brigantine, of Weymouth, from the
north, was driven on shore near the martello tower.
A line was thrown over the wreck by the coastguard
mortar apparatus, by which means four of the crew
were saved ; but the master, mate, and one hand were
drowned. A line also thrown from the mortar ap-
paratus rescued the crew of the schooner Port Glas-
gow, of Whitby, from Warkworth to Boulogne,
which struck upon the Sizewell bank. Two other
vessels are reported to have sunk on Sizewell bank,
and a small vessel is stated to have been bot-
tom up a short distance to the northward of
Aldborough. The Eclipse, of and for Exmouth,
from Middlesborough, is reported to have foun-
dered a short distance to the northward of Orford-
ness during the fearful weather of Sunday night,
and that only the boy has been saved. The brig
Hugh, of Shields, for London, which went upon the
Sizewell bank, was in collision with the schooner
London, of Rochester, and afterwards struck on, the
bunk. The captain and mate of the London got
on board the Hugh, and when the latter went upon
the sand, the crew took to the rigging, and the
survivors were taken off at six o'clock. The cap-
tain of the London and three of the crew of the
Hugh were drowned.
The ports down the east coast are thronged with
disabled coasters, and it is feared that sad havoc has
been caused among the fishing boats. The schooner
Garrett, of London, which ran into Lowestoft, re-
ports having passed at eight o'clock on Monday
morning, two miles off Southwold, the stern of a
fishing lugger, with nets and floats attached. The
sloop Ark, belonging to Goole, is reported to have
sunk on the inside of the Newcome Sand, but no-
thing has been heard of her crew.
Below Flamborough Head the gale told with
terrible effect. The damage done in the neighbour-
hood of the Tyne has already been noticed. A Ber-
wick pilot boat, containing four men, is supposed to
have been overwhelmed by the wind and sea which
raged along that coast on Sunday night, and to have
been lost. Fears are also entertained that an Italian
barque, called the Francisca Maria, which left Leith
onSaturday morning for Shields, foundered in the
storm. The tug which had her in tow was com-
pelled to slip, in consequence of the fearful state of
the weather, and at that time the barque's bulwarks
were at times under water. No tidings have been
heard of the ship.

GREAT YARMOUTH, OCT. 21.

The crew of the Hannah Booth, which came
on shore at Caistor, as reported yesterday, was
saved by the Caistor lifeboat. The crew of the
Cambria, which got upon the Barber Sand,
were also rescued by the Gorleston lifeboat.
The brig Salonica, of and from Sunderland, sunk
in the roads, and her crew, as well as that of the
Integrity, of Hartlepool, have not been heard of.
The master and mate of the sloop Two Brothers, of
Hull, were received at the Sailors' Home. The
master was accompanied by his wife, and it appears
that the sloop during the heavy storm was found
to be making water fast, and the master, discover-
ing that the vessel was sinking, made signals to a
foreign schooner in the offing. This was about
eight miles to the north of the Dudgeon light ship.
The foreign schooner bore down to the assistance
of the sloop, but the sea was running so high that
the crew found it impossible to lay their vessel
alongside of their distressed comrades. Never-
theless a seaman managed to scramble on board the
schooner, and then the latter left the sloop to her fate.
The master, wife, and the mate, with but few clothes
upon them, then took to their boat, in which they
were nearly
swamped. For some hours they were
tossed about at the mercy of the waves, suffering
extremely from cold and exposure; but ultimately
they had the
schooner Susagirnadh, of
fortune to be picked up by the
Yarmouth, which landed
them here.

P.M. There has been another furious storm of wind
and rain this morning, but it was of brief duration,
and the gale seems now to have finally subsided.

TWO WRECKS OFF 1I
On Friday, Saturday,
ay last NdE sW„HdAVE .
N
an
New-
haven was visited by a tremendous
and wind from the W.S.W., and though
of rain
iy material
from its sheltered situation, escaped ough T.ewes,
a
damage, there was great fear for the
are constantly off the Sussex coast. Theah ships
eventthat
fully justified these apprehensions. On Friday
afternoon, when the gale was almost at its
highest, a French brig, called the Jenne
Albert 191 tons, Maynar master, of Bonr-
deaut laden with zinc ore from Requejada in the
north of Spain, bound to Antwerp, was seen rapidly
approaching the shore in an unmanageable state,
with her sails torn to ribbons. She struck about
half-past 12, on the beach near the Buckle Inn.
Awistance was rendered by the coast-guard men,
who were soon on the spot with Manby's apparatus.
411 i" was got from the shore to the ship by means