The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-22 00:00:00

AWFUL CALAIIITY.

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO LIVES
LOST.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING.--Intelligence ]rah
been received here to-day of one of the roost appalling;
calamities that ever occurred on the shores of Gre%
Britain--a calamity as sudden and unexpected as it I
astounding and awful. Tile facts are briefly these
An emigrant ship, called the Governor Fenner, boasil
to New York, sailed from this port on Friday last, with
a crew of 18, including the Captain, and 106 Pasien;
gers, all of whom, with the exception of the CaPtai
and chief mate, have perished within twelve hours alter
their departure. A bent two o'clock on the morninC
of Saturday, the vessel being then about twenty II!"
not of Holyhead, came in contact with the Nott..ag'
ham steamer, from Dublin," and so fearful was the
collision, so sudden its effects, that in less than a
note after, so says the Captain, the cow'
grant ship disappeared, carrying down with her eve"'
soul on board, except the two individuals
psee.onalf
named. The ni4lit was excessively dark, so dark that'
,']though the captain of the Governor Fenner was etri
ab!e.l to se,! the lights of the steamer, the steerimall,n
the latter was not able to distinguish those of the uG-
vernor Fenner. Tie captain was on deck at the 604
and seeing the steamer on his weather bow, put his helsn
:Tort, the wind at the time blowing fresh S•S•V?"
with u heavy head sea. The steersman of the Nottil:
ham, from the cause assigned, kept his helm starbnur
which produced the ree!anclioly calamity. The vexed
struck the steamer amidships, .abaft the
wheel, enterer
r
away her funnel and wheel.house, knocked tier bur.
warks to piezes, and so completely shattere,', her mr
chinery, that she was immediately cripplf,d and rel.;
derail useless, but no lives were lost. W
be best described in the words of OA ea • f the
ptain o
fated Governor Fenner.
" 1 repaired forward, and sound the ship going (I°°‘,r„'
heal firct. I instaptly ' ora.,ered the men on deck to save
their 1 yes, but they still kept going abaft. retina'," on the forecastle until the ship was at the water's e 046
and just saved my life by catching at net follows vvl"
a rope front the
steamer. My mate jumped from the fore-yak board the steamer, and saved his life h
ship disappeared almost instantaneously. The
y so doing.
lowered a boar, but she was swamped alongside.
All the paisenge:s Were in their bertha *and asleeP
at the moment they were thus hurried into eteroill;
and the crew al:
so, with the exception of tho via"'
•
The bulk of the passengers is described as being suer"
riot to ordinary run of steerage emigrants, for there. to
ivP:re 1,0 cabin passengers, and some of them are sand
of
have carried out considerable property. The office,.
the ag( nt is dosed to-day, being Sunday, but e vs.
steamer
will probably app( ar to-morrow. Many were native'
of the three kingdoms, promiscuously, and not of all
particular locality or kingdom.
• With respect to the vessel herself she was (4-, and
must have been wretchedly crazy. It appears LY
athe •:
register that she was bolt in Massachussetts, is 18'7 t.
and had been, consequently nearly fourteen years afio:g
The Captain describes her, however,
and we 11 built craft ; and, he says, that last summer'
$B,OOO were expended on her in iron knees and other
substantial repair.
received la
The Nottingham, from the damage she the
the collision, was unable to make hes.d. and. from 0 ,
time of the calamity until l'aur o'cl'.ek in the afternforcann
by constantly plying the purr.ps, she WB9 kept
sinking, when a steamer fr-J,n Drogheda hove in :alt...
took her in tow, and ai.,e arrived here this nio
ii:Jro,
She had on board r, large quantity of cattle ; a" •
as, being a stro
order to keep I',;rr afloat, 200 bead were
thrown into the sea. Had the weather been at all
bniatern':.s, the steamer would unquestionably, have
sllP7,.ed the fate of the Governor Fenner. obliged to ea