The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-21 00:00:00

The Late Terrific Gale.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.
Yesterday morning Capt. Hurst, of Southamp-
ton, master of the schooner yacht Urania, owned
by W. Wise, Esq., left for Folkestone, but in con-
sequence of the severe weather the vessel had been
put about to return to this port. When nearing
the Owers a ship in distress was perceived, which
proved to be a brigantine bound to the eastward,
that had struck on that fatal shoal, and had settled
down so that her lower yards were under water.
Her crew, which consisted of six men, were
lashed to the rigging. There was a very rough
sea at the time, but Captain Hurst gallantly
bore down to her, and arrived just soon enough to
see one of the hands, who afterwards proved to be
the mate, fall into the sea, thereby losing his life ;
but the remaining five of the crew were rescued, and
landed at Southampton the same evening. The
vessel struck at 5 o'clock in the morning, so that
the poor fellows were exposed to the inclement wea-
ther in their critical situation for nearly nine hours,
and when rescued they were in a most exhausted
condition. Several vessels passed them without ren-
dering any assistance, and great praise is due to
Captain Hurst for his gallant conduct.
SELSEY, SUSSEX-, March 19.

The brigantine Sarah Ann, from Jersey. to London,
with a cargo of broken granite, was wrecked yester-
day on this place (reports Herbert C. Foster, Esq.)
The Friend lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Insti-
tution, was launched through a very heavy surf, and
succeeded in saving the whsle of the crew—six is
number. As soon as these men were landed signals
of distress were heard from the 0 veers lightship, and
the lifeboat proceeded to a seeond.vessel, which had
struck on the shoal near the lightship. Owing to
the heavy sea, and the adverse wind and tide, the
boat was some time in reaching the wreck, and un-
happily, when she arrived there, it was found that
all hands had disappeared, and that only the ves-
sel's masts were visible above the water. The life-
boat behaved admirably in the breakers. The cost of
this lifeboat was contributed to the Lifeboat Society
a few years since by members of the Society of
Friends, and she has been the means of rescuing
the crews of 13 men belonging to wrecked vessels.

Naval and Military Intelligence.
•
It has been notified bythe Quartermaster-General
of the Forces that the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, on
their arrival in England early next month, will be
quartered (dismounted) at Colchester, instead of
the 14th Hussars, originally ordered to that station.
An order has been received at Colchester from the
Horse Guards countermanding the departure of the
depot, 2d Battalion 6th Regt., for Ireland, but 50
men—transfers from the 2d Battalion 6th Regt., to
the Ist Battalion 6th Regt.—are held in readiness
to proceed to Fermoy. The headquarters of the
2d Battalion 6th Regt. are on their passage home
from Jamaica. The depot of the 6th Dragoons,
stationed at Canterbury, is expected at Colchester
on the departure of the Ist squadron of the King's
Dragoon Guards for Aldershot. The movement of
the last-named regiment to Aldershot will com-
mence on the 25th inst. Major Coxon, late Adjt.
of the 2d Depot Battalion at Chatham, has joined
the garrison at Colchester, and Capt. Northey has
been ordered to proceed to Chatham to assume his
duties as Adjt. of the 2d Depot Battalion, vice
Coxou, promoted. Lieut. Saville, 18th Foot, has
been posted to the 2d Battalion of his corps, and has
joined the depot at Colchester. Lieut. Orange, 2d
Battalion, 16th Regt., is held in immediate readi-
ness to embark for the service companies of his re-
giment in Canada.
The army has sustained a loss by the death of Col.
Alex. Essex F. Holcombe, on the Bth ult., while in
command of the 2d Battalion of his regiment in
camp at Soojut, on the march from Bombay to Nus-
seerabad. The deceased served with the 13th Light
Infantry, and highly distinguished himself in the
campaign in Affghanistan from 1838 to 1842. He,
was present at the suppression of the Sepoy mutiny
at Sukkur in 1844. He served in the Crimea
from the 30th of June, 1855, and at the siege of
Sebastopol ; and also from Nov. 16, 1858, to March
16, 1859, with the Berar field force, which took
the field for the purpose of preventing the rebel
chiefs Tantia Topee and Feroze Shah from penetrat-
ing into the Deccan. Col. Holcombe served at first
as second in command of the Berar field force; and
latterly in separate command of half of it. Also
in the campaign of 1860 in China, and was
present
at the surrender of Pekin. For his services in the
Crimea and Sebastopol he had received a medal and
clasp, sth class of the Medjidie, a Turkish medal,
and a medal and clasp for Pekin.
The whole of the Chatham division of Royal
Marines Light Infantry are to be at once armed with
the new breech-loading Snider rifle, the issue of
which will be commenced at head-quartets to-day.
Upwards of 2,000 stands of the newly-converted
rifle have been received at Chatham from Enfield,
upwards of 100 barrels of the new ammunition hav-
ing been landed at the Ordnance wharf some time
since. It is intended by the authorities to arm the
infantry at Chatham with the breech-loading Snider
rifle as soon as the Enfield rifles now in store can be
converted. The Lords of the Admiralty, having
decided on forming a permanent battalion of the
Royal Marines Light Infantry in Ireland, the selec-
tion of the officers and non-commissioned officers
who will comprise the staff of the battalion is now
being made from the Chatham and other divisions.
Orders were yesterday received at Chatham from
the Horse Guards, directing a • detachment of 23
non-conirr4sOzyd officers and men of the Ist Bat-
talion of the 10th Regiment to embark for the Cape
of Good Hope to join the service companies of that
regiment. Lieut. R.l\l. Dickinson has been ordered
By the Ist of March 300 sail of fishing vessels
to embark with the detachment. were expected on the Newfoundland banks, employ-
Considerable surprise has been occasioned at Chat- ins nearly 3,000 men. All the wharf room in the
ham dockyard by an order received from the Ad- Gloucester harbour has been taken, and a number
miralty, directing the discharge from that establish- of new wharves will be built the coming summer.
meat of the whole of the women employed in the
The best trip of the winter. fishing vessels thus far
is that of the schooner Nellie May, Captain Brown,
rope-spinning department of the yard, the number which brought 15,000 pounds of halibut, and 5,000
who will thus be thrown out of employment pounds of cod fish into port.

WRECK OF THREE SHIELDS VESSELS AND
APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE.
(From the Shield 3 Gazette.)
The equinoctial gales which have swept over the
north-east since since Friday seem also to have ex-
tended to the Channel, where they have been severely
felt. It appears that on the 13th and 14th inst. a
large fleet of grain-laden vessels from Black sea ports
arrived at Falmouth for orders, and were at anchor
in the bay. During Saturday night a terrific gale
from the eastward came on, and much damage oc-
curred to the grain fleet. One vessel, the Sea Spray,
Capt. Jewitt, which arrived from Enos on the 14th,
and was waiting for orders, drove daring the night
upon the ship Columbia, and sustained such damage
that she foundered at the eastern breakwater. The
Russian ship Ophelia, Brunston, from Odessa, an-
chored in the b ty, had to cut away hats masts, and
part of her crew were landed. The Portuguese
brigantine Theria was stranded on Trefasis Point,
from which there is little hope of gAting her off

again.
Among the vessels waiting for orders was the
Euphrosyne, of North Shields, which arrived from
Odessa on the 14th. She had on board a crew of 13
hands, including the master, and there was also
the master's wife and child on board. Early on
Sunday morning the Euphrosyne foundered in the
roads, ten of her crew going down with her. The
following telegram was received in North Shields on
Sunday afternoon :—" Falmouth, Sunday.—Euph-
rosyne foundered. Captain's wife and child lost,
and ten hands. The captain and two men are saved."
This telegram was received by Mr. Thomas Knox,
of Nile-street, North Shields, brother-in-law of the
captain, and owner of the vessel, and came to hand
close upon a letter which had been received from
the captain's wife, assuring her relatives that she
had enjoyed her trip to Odessa. The vessel sailed
from the Tyne about the middle of June last for the
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cook and steward ; August Sterling, 25, Heligoland ;
Win. Mortimer, 47, Bristol ; John Rowley, 21,
North Shields ; John Deans, 16, Edinburgh ; Jas.
Smith, 16, Edinburgh ; Alex. Doctor, 16, appren-
tice; James Cullan, 17, apprentice; John Richard-
son, 23, Perth. The Euphrosyne was a barque of
387 tong, and was launched on the Wear in 1853.
The following telegram has been received in North
.Melds from the owner of the Euphrosyne at Ply-
mouth :—" The boat capsized ; ten men, master's
wife and child drowned. The master, mate, and
the boy Coulbert saved." A reference to the above
list of the crew will show that the mate was Win.
Brown, belonging to Dundee. None of the boys in-
cluded in the articles were named Coulbert, and this
is probably an error in transmission. It is supposed
that the vessel drove from her anchors, that the
crew took to the boat, which was capsized, with the
above melancholy result. Mrs. Creigh, the cap-
tain's wife, was in her 37th year, and had a family
of three children, of which the second accompanied
her on the voyage to Odessa.