The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-13 00:00:00

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t captain was among the saved. Thoskipit(e_ •-•
on board a few hours previously. TliKa*Va,
tons, owner Mr. Dixon, of Exeter, CaptaiiOrali
man, bound from Exmouth for Port Teta, •
ballast, went to pieces immediately after striking,
but all the crew (six in number) were saved. The
Scythian, an Exeter vessel, Captain Joseph Solo-
mon, in ballast, and bound from Exmouth for. Port
Talbot, was entirely wrecked, but all hands were
saved. - The Abeoua, a Brixham vessel, Captain
Hellings, was also stranded, but the crew were caved.
The Blue Jacket, a Salcombe schooner, was totally
wrecked; crew saved. The Elizabeth, a schooner,
bound for Crewes, from Nantes, France, was lost,
and it is feared the crew are lest. The Honour, 'a
Shields brigantine, was wrecked, but the crew were
saved. The Thomas and Mai y, laden with potatoes,
and bound from Guernsey for Cardiff, was totally
wrecked. The crew were saved. The Cheshire
Witch, three out of a crew of six drowned ; the ves-
sel was completely shattered. The Britannia, an
unknown vessel, came to pieces, and her master,
Captain Clifton, was drowned, the remainder of the
crew being dragged to the shore by ropes. The Use-
ful, a Shields brig, was entirely wrecked; the crew
were saved. The following trawlers were wrecked :
—The Telegram and the Helen were totally
wrecked, but the crews were saved. The Providence
is partially wrecked ; the crew were saved by getting •
on board another vessel. The Colonel Buller is a
total wreck ; the crew, consisting of three, left the
trawler in a.boat, which on their making for the
shore capsized, and all were drowned. The Salem
and the Briton, the Lively, the Ernest, the Belle, a
French trawler, and the Forerunner were all wrecked,
the crews in all cases being saved.: A steamer un-
known went down with all hands. It is supposed the
following safely anchored on Wednesday :—The
Florence Nightingale, of Padstow ; the James
O'Llanelly, the Richard, from Havre, bound for
Liverpool ; the Providence, of Goole ; the brigantine
Jane and Annie, of Powey, Capt. Evans, the
vanus, of Bideford ; a London vessel, Capt. Attstin ;
and the Southerly, bound from Exmouth for France,
also sunk. The shore was literally covered with
wrecks, and several bodies were washed ashore. A
large fund has been raised for the relief of the suf-
ferers. The ship insurance companies of Brixham
and Teignmouth are heavy losers.
GREAT YARMOUTH, Jan. 11.
To-day, about noon (reports Mr. M. Butcher)
the brig Thoughtful, of Sunderland, bound from
that place to London, with coals, dragged her
anchor and came on the beach. The wind was
blowing a gale from N.E., with a heavy sea. The
rocket apparatus was got out, and the surf lifeboat
of the National Lifeboat Institution launched, and
the crew of the brig taken out by the lifeboat. The
whole of the companies of boatmen joined heartily
in working the lifeboat, and without any delay.
The ship has hove down on her beam ends, and will
doubtless become a wreck.

LOWESTOFT, Jan. 12.
It blew a furious gale off here. A number of
ships bore up for our harbour, and taking it at low
water, fell to leeward against the South Pier and
did considerable damage to themselves. The
schooner Gadabout, of Ramsgate, was in collision
in the harbour with the Diana, of Whitstable ; the
former was cut down to the water's edge and sunk,
I and the latter sustained damage. Most of the ves-
sels have lost anchors and chains, spars, sails split,
&c. Our inner harbour is filled with shipping, and
our outer harbour has not presented so disastrous a
scene for some time.

CROMER, NORFOLK, Jan. 11.

A large barque was observed this morning stand-
ing in (reports Mr. H. Sandford) and apparently
touching on a ledge of rocks lying about half a mile
from the high water line. The lifeboat of the
National Lifeboat Institution was promptly brought
down to the water and launched ; but by that time
the vessel had fortunately got out of danger and
stood out to sea. Under these circumstances the
men pulled off and kept the boat afloat some time.
Another vessel hove in sight afterwards with a flag
at the peak, or not more than two-thirds up, some
said the Union down, but when opposite Cromer,
being two miles or two miles and a half from the
land, and before the lifeboat could reach her, the
flag was hauled down, and the vessel proceeded
northward, the wind having shifted to N.N.E.

RAMSGATE, Thursday Night.

About 11 20 a.m. (says Capt. Shaw) a vessel was
reported by several boatmen on the pier to be seen
on the north side of the Goodwin Sands. On the
haze clearing at this tune she appeared to be a vessel
on her beam ends, with her masts gone, the wind
blowing a strong breeze from S.S. W. The lifeboat
of the National Lifeboat Institution and the Vulcan
steam tug were immediately manned, and proceeded
out to render assistance. The coxswain in his report
says :—" Having passed through the Cudd Channel
and round the North Sand Head, we observed the
Champion lugger small boat alongside a schooner
on shore on her beam ends, with the crew standing
on her broadside ; taking off the shipwrecked men
one by one, the tug at this time lying to, with the
lifeboat astern. When the crew were all on board
the Champion boat she pushed off from the wreck
and pulled a little to the southward. The tug and
lifeboat then proceeded to the southward also to
meet them, and finding that there was too much
sea for the lugger's boat to come off, they signalled
to us to send the lifeboat to their assistance. About
1 p.m. slipped the lifeboat, when she made sail and
crossed the sand, through a very confused and heavy
sea, in the Bight of the North Sand Head. At this
moment the wind suddenly shifted to N.E., and
blew a terrific gale, with hard squalls and thick
with rain. During the weather we succeeded in
placing the lifeboat alongside th e Champion's
We then
small
boat, and took the crew out, six in.number.
made sail on the lifeboat, and crossed the N. W. spit
of the sand through a very heavy sea, through
which the small boat could not possibly have
crossed with the number of people on board. The
tug then proceeded round the North Sand Head into
Trinity Bay, and waited for the lifeboat coming
across the sand, took her in tow, and arrived about
4 p.m. At this time it was blowing a heavy gale at
N.E., with hard squalls and rain. Great skill and
gallantry were shown by the Champion's small
boat's crew in getting to the wreck and taking the
crew out ; but had not the tug and lifeboat been
out, the whole of the people would, however, have
been swept away and have perished. The vessel
proved to be the schooner Zephyr, of Banff, Nixon
master, from Newcastle to Lisbon ; cargo, coals.
TORQUAY, Jan. 11.

Torbay has just been visited by another terrific
gale, and in this instance unfortunately attended
with loss of life and a vast amount of property, a
large windbound fleet having assembled in the bay,
in consequence of the late westerly gales. During
yesterday the wind was W.N.W. and moderate, but
after nightfall it backed to S.S.E., strong, with rain.
At midnight it veered to N.E., a heavy gale. The
ships thus suddenly exposed to its full force, with a
terrible cross sea, began to slip, part, and drive in
all directions ; near 30 are said to be on shore at
Brixham, from which 70 lives were saved, and some
14 to 16 supposed drowned. Eleven others are on
shore at Broadsands and its vicinity, the crews of
which are, it is believed, all saved. Amongst them
is the barque Stately, of Shields, a total wreck.
Some ships are still riding at their anchors, but
several of these are dismasted. The Teignmouth
lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution Waa
sent for, and brought overland to Torquay. she
is now (post time) aiding the ships still riding.
The sea is going down, and there are
prospects
of a better night. Such a scene of destruction has
probably never before been witnessed on the shores
of Torbay. It is said that the lifeboat might have
arrived hours earlier in the bay if she had been
sailed down as her coxswain wished ; but the chief
officer of the Coastguard at Teignmouth (Mr.
Baring) is stated to have refused to allow some of
his men to go in the boat, and had insisted on
the boat going eight or ten miles by land
i to Tor-
quay. The institution will send down their inspector
from Northumberland, where he is at present, to
squabble. make an inquiry into this discreditable

THE TRAGEDY AT /1 IDEOPEN.---JOlin Cooke, the
husband of the woman who met her death in so melancholy
a manner on Christmas-eve, at Wideopen, near Newcastle,
has been committed on a charge of manslaughter by the
magistrate.