The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-22 00:00:00

HURRICANE IN THE IRISH CHANNEL,

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

During the entire of the 19th a violent hurricane blew
from the East. The advices to hand this morning
report the following disasters :
The mail-steamer Eblana, broke her shaft, while on her
voyage from Holyhead to Kingstown, with the London
mails. After getting her mails transhipped to the
Prince Arthur, she bore up under sail, and arrived at
Kingstown. While in the harbour she came in contact
with the ship Fanny, from this port to Africa, which
ran into the harbour for safety, carrying away her
stanchions, bulwarks, &c. The Darnley, of Cork, ran
into the sloop Dahlia, which sunk, as well as the
schooner Victoria, which had also been in contact in
Kingstown Harbour. The crews of both vessels were
saved. The schooner Sligo, of Penzance, laden with
china clay and block-tin, drove on shore about nine
miles north of Wexford, and remained high on the
beach. The crew were saved. A ship reported to be
the Agnes, of New York, with cargo and about 150
passengers, was also driven on shore in the South bay,
near Wexford, and remained on the rocks. It was ex-
pected, should the weather. moderate, that the cargo
would be saved. The Caravanna, Poussoniere, from
Santander to Liverpool, went on shore near Black-
water, and went to pieces in a few minutes, all on
board having perished. The schooner Caroline, Pope,
from Cornwall to Liverpool, was taken into Dunmore,
Waterford, by the pilot cutter Emma, with loss of
mainmast. The Portuguese schooner Porto Nova, from
Terceira to Liverpool, ran ashore at Ballycotton, having
mistaken the light for that of the Old Head of Kinsale,
and went to pieces. The crew were saved. The
Chatham, from Liverpool to Savannah, struck on the
bar of Drogheda at low water. Her masts were cut
away, but at the last accounts she was breaking up very
fast. One man and a boy came ashore, but the latter
almost immediately afterwards died ; and it is feared
that the remainder of the crew have met with a watery
grave, from the perilous position in which the ship was
placed, and the fury of the gale at the time. The
Pollock, hence to Apalachicola, put into Queenstown,
with a cargo of coal and salt, with eight of the crew
disabled, the mainmast head bowsprit sprung, and main
and mizen topmasts, &c., gone.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.
The gale which raged with such fury from Saturday
night until Monday. afternoon, has, it is feared, done
considerable damage to the shipping along the coast.
No less than six vessels of the City of Dublin Steam
Paokct Company were yesterday in this port, awaiting
a moderation or change of direction in the wind. The
Freeman's Journal of this morning says:—" Towards
the northern direction, the whole line of coast from below
Clontarf to Sutton and Howth was strewed with frag-
ments of timber, broken spars, casks, &c., indicating the
breaking up of some unfortunate vessel. There being,
however, no wreck of any craft perceptible in this imme-
diate vicinity, the supposition was entertained that the
floating fragments observed belonged to the Queen Vic-
toria steamer, which lies submerged off the Baily Light
in deep water. The opinion was rather strengthened by
the fact that those remnants of wreck floated up with
the current of the tide which runs inshore from Howth
upwards. It appears that a dead body floated in and
was picked up by some boatmen, and strangely enough,
the corpse, as we understand, has been buried without
having the usual inquest required by law held upon the
remains. Immediately beneath the rocks and adjoining
Sutton, near the villa of Mr. J. Egan, a large cask of
spirits—brandy, as was supposed from the shape of the
cask—was washed up by the waves under the precipice,
and was stove in pieces. The pungent odour of the
spirits was perceptible in the air all about the hill. A
quantity of oranges and fragments of orange boxes,
pieces of cork bark, aid myriads of cut corks were
picked up by the boatmen on this part of the coast.
This would indicate the wreck or total loss of some
foreign vessel, inward bound with fruit and wines, &c.
The coast-guard at Sutton continue constantly out on
relief-boat duty, watching, to be of service to vessels in
distress. A fine sloop named the New Milford, of Car-
narvon, and bound for that port, which left Dublin on
Saturday, was seen off Howth on Sunday morning, with
the union jack flying cross downwards, the well-known
signal of distress. Mr. Samuel Stephens, and the crew
of the coast-guard put off at once to the relief of the
vessel, and after great exertion—pulling against a heavy
sea—succeeded in boarding her, and by the exercise of
good seamanship and knowledge of the coast managed
to bring her safely into Howth harbour, where she now
lies moored. The fishermen in the nei:rnhoboiunrghoaods of
Howth, Skerries, Rush, and Balbriggan, were some of
them out on Friday night and Saturday
distance from the land. On the gale becoming heavy
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vy
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they all bore up for shelter, many boats having t
in for safety to the nearest creek, thankful at having
escaped escaped so well."
The effects of the storm were alio felt in Cork. The
Cork Constitution of yesterday contain: the following
particulars :—" About 5 p.m, on
weather, which had previously been fair
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towards
night, oesntiew,gasrutds
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denly changed into a storm from S.E
,which
night, assumed the character of a
lent hurricane.
Rain continued pouring in torrents, and
the storm con-
tinued without intermission during the entire of Sunday
and yesterday. The communication between Passage
the railway nor river steamers could oenPtutt
, and Queenstown was completelyinte
On
Saturday evening the hulkQueenstown, . .
atwhere the
river steamers touch, was carried down, caused, it is
stated, by collision with one of th atondonye.ither
The harbour is crowned with
lt after
sustaining
vessels having made the Cove with great diffi
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of slates and
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tiles which were blown from the roofs.
Some
of the
Dyke trees have sustained great damage. An idea of
the violence of the gale
omaeyof be obtained from the fact
that on Sunday morning n
the carriages of the Cork,
Blackrock, and Passage Bail way was borne along by the
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hurricane, and driven the entire distance from Passage
to Horsehead before it was stopped.
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with Indian corn
and fruit, havingNo‘vca 13, a
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terday. which
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saved by the exertions of coast guard
and pilot
Crew
John Rearden and his crew. These latter
hardy fellows narrowly escaped being sacrificed to their
humanity and daring. The vessel having taken the
ground at about half-ebb, in the midst of the breakers,
not more than 300 yards from shore, the pilot and his
crew, having embarked the crew of the schooner (nine
in number) in the pilot boat, volunteered to remain on
board in charge of her, in the hope of being able at the
rising of the tide to save the cargo, by running her high
on shore. The poor fellows, seven in number, spent the
awful night in a fearful position ; they were soon driven
to the rigging for safety, as the sea swept her decks
clear; and as she had taken the ground, it seemed
miraculous how the masts, to which they clung for life,
did not give way. And thus they remained from 10
p.m. to 4 a.m. this morning, the vessel threatening to
go to pieces every moment, and wholly out off from
possibility of relief. At the rising of the tide she was
thrown helplessly further and further in, till at length
she reached where she now lies, very high on the strand.
But little will remain to provide adequate compensation
for those who acted so nobly and endured such peril
that dreadful night. Sub-constable John Ryan, at the
risk of his own, saved the life of a boy of the Portuguese
crew, who fell overboard from the boat which landed
them. The sub-constable nobly dashed into the breakers,
and had the satisfaction of rescuing the poor youth, after
sinking several times. This in itself ought to suggest
an answer to those who talk..of removing the police from
such a locality as Ballycotton. The pilot's crew were
only saved by the etrort:z of the coast guard, who, by
holding each other, formed a chain from the shore to the
ship, and rescued them one by one. Her cargo is all
destroyed. Her upper works:masts, and rigging are as
yet sound, and ma-,- be of some value. Her hull is a
total wreck, and will probably go to pieces with this
evening's tide, Which at. its height, with this wind,
sweeps clear over the strand into the' bog.'