The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-10 00:00:00

Shipwreck in the Atlantic.

The Inman steamer City of Dublin, while on
her last voyage from Liverpool for New York, fell
in with it wreck in the Atlantic. The wreck turned

out to be that of the bark Burnside, of Greenock,
bound from New York to the Clyde. By the gal-

lantry of Mr. Fletcher, the second officer of the
City of Dublin—to whose intrepidity Capt. Eynon,
her commander, pays cordial testimony—the only
three survivors of the Burnside's crew were rescued.

The ten others composing her crew were drowned,
and the three survivors experienced great hardships
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while on the wreck. The City of Dublin arrived at
New York on the 28th ult., and by that means we

have the following account of the disaster from the
official report of Captain Eynon :—Dec. 17, lat.
49.41, long. 31.14, fell in with a wreck, which on
approaching the steamer's wheels were stopped, and
one of the ship's lifeboats manned and lowered im-
mediately, and in charge of ',the second officer, Mr.
Peter Fletcher, who in the most daring manner, in
the face of a high sea, succeeded in rescuing from
the wreck three survivors, namely, George Smith,

steward, of Liverpool ; Gilbert Duncan, a seaman,
of Shetland ; and John Johnston, a seaman, of
Gottenburg, Norway. The remaining ten, whose
names we have not learned, had perished. The
wreck was the British bark Burnside, of Greenock,
and when first seen had her fore lower mast stand-
ing and part of the rigging ; also the lower mizen-
mast. The extreme fore and aft part of her seemed
to be occasionally above water, but the whole main
deck was immersed and the sea making a clean
breach over her. Upon approaching her the three
men were seen standing by the rudderpost, and
occasionally immersed in the water ; their condition
was most deplorable, having scarcely any clothing
about them except some pieces of old sail tied with
bits of spun yarn ; their flesh and particularly
their arms, feet, and legs, were swollen and of a
putrid appearance, in some places broken out in
boils ; and they were so weak and exhausted
that it was only with great exertion and the excite-

ment of their being rescued that enabled them to
stand. Having got on board the steamer in safety
they were kindly cared for by Dr. Beach, and on
their arrival at this port were convalescent and able
to walk about. From the statement of these men it
appears they left New York for Greenock, laden
with oak timber, with a crew of 13, all told, on the
Bth November. They had fine weather up to the
morning of the 7th December, when it blew a strong
gale from the south-west, with a high sea, which
washed away the galley and deckhouse forward,
where the crew were quartered ; they also lost one
of the two boats and the bulwarks, thus being left
without the means of cooking food and without
shelter. The bark was then hove to, under close
reefed maintopsail, and all hands were kept con-
stantly at the pumps, where they were lashed. She
had at this time 7ft. water in the hold, which kept
gaining on the pumps till 5 p.m. on the 11th, when
the gale seemed to abate, when the foretopsail and
foresail were set and the bark put before the wind,
wii9n she fell over on her beam ends, bursting the
hatches and main deck, carrying away the remain-
ing boat, And the deck cabin with all the stores, and
as every one was on deck at the time every one was
washed overboard. Six managed to get on board
again, the remaining seven were seen no more. The
captain got into the main rigging with his head just
above water, the second mate got into the fore rig•
ging, and the three survivors, with a boy, were
enabled to get into the mizen rigging, the ship re-
maining on her beam ends, with her masts and loose
sails in the water, for about an hour and a half,
when the foretopmast, mainmast, and mizentopmast
gave way, carrying the captain with them. She thus
became relieved, and righted her decks amidships
under water, and the two ends about 2ft. above the
sea,which went clean over her the whole time. When
daylight appeared on the 12th, the second mate was
seen lashed in the fore rigging, and apparently
dead, and not being able to get near him, he
remained there until Wednesday, the 14th, with
his head down and his feet up ; eventually the sea
washed him to pieces, a part of his body remaining
in the rigging when the others were rescued. The
boy, who got into the mizen rigging with the sur-
vivors, perished from cold and fatigue on the morn-
ing of the 12th, and was washed away from them
soon after they observed he was dead. Thesurvivors,
soon after the vessel righted, gained the monkey poop,
a small space aft, about 4ft. by 10ft., and raised
above the main deck about 2ft., upon which for-
merly stood the wheel. Here they lashed themselves
to the rudderpost, but the sea, which was constantly
breaking over them for six days and nights, would
occasionally carry one of them adrift, who, with the
assistance of his fellow-sufferers, would regain his
position. It was from here the boy was washed away
when dead, and whence they were rescued by the men
from the City of ',Dublin. For the six days they
were on the wreck they were without food, except a
few pieces of biscuits which floated near them, which
were saturated with salt water. Fresh water they had
not a drop of, and were without clothing except the
wet pieces of canvas which the man Johnston
managed at great risk to cut from the mizen-mast,
where it hung the first day.—Liverpool Courier.

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