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The Loss of the Ceres Screw Steamer.

OFFICIAL REPORT.

Greenwich Police Court, Dec. 10.

Report of the circumstances attending the loss
of the screw steamship Ceres, on the 10th of No-
vember, 1866, on Carnsore Point, on the Wexford
coast :—The Ceres was an iron schooner-rigged
screw steamer, of 580 tons gross burthen, 100-horse
power, the property of Messrs. Maleolnason and
Brothers, of Waterford, and employed in the London
and Dublin passenger and goods trade. She had
a crew of 26, all told, and was commanded by W.
Pascoe, who holds a Board of Trade certificate of
competency as master. The Ceres left London at
10 a.m. on Nov. 7 last, on her passage to Dublin,
with a general cargo and passengers, and after touch-
ing at Portsmouth, Southampton, and Plymouth,
and Falmouth, took her departure from the last
named port at 12.35 a.m. of the 10th, and was off
the Longships at the distance of p, mile about sa.m.
Here her course was laid at N.N.E. by the compass
on the bridge, by which she was steered, the bin-
nacle :compass varying half a point more to the
northward. The weather was fine, and the wind
moderate about S. by W. till noon of that day, and
the ship was going at the rate of 10 knots an hour
under sail and steam. About noon it began to
blow, with rain, and this state of the weather in-
creased as the day advanced, so that the Smalls
Light, which must have been passed aboat 3 p.m.,
was not sighted. At 4.20 the patent log (Massey's),
which had been put overboard when off the Long-
ships, was taken in, and showed 103 miles, which,
allowing 10 per cent. for correction, made a run of
113 miles from the Longships. At 5.30 the main-
sail was taken in and double reefed, and at 5.40 the
master ordered the course to be altered from N.N.E.
to N.E. by N. At 6 p.m. the engines were slowed
to half speed, and at 6.20 the master directed the
chief mate to haul in the log, read it off, and
set it afresh ; but whilst this was in the act of
being done, the ship got among the breakers about
a mile inside Carnsore Point, on the Wexford coast,
and in a few minutes broke asunder just before the
stoke hole in the engine room. As the ship took the
ground forward, those who were in the fore part
when she broke in two were enabled to reach the
shore when the tide ebbed, and in this way 13 pas-
, sengers and 13 of the crew were saved ; but 11 of
the crew and, as is believed, 29 passengers who were
ou the after part of the ship, were drowned. Cara-
sore Point, where the Ceres was wrecked, is a meri-
dional distance of 20 miles from the position in which
she was supposed to be at the time she went on
shore. To account for this great deviation, it is sur-
mised that there was an error in the bridge compass
by which the ship was steered. There is, however,
no evidence of such error, and if it had existed it
would in all probability have been discovered in the
previous part of the voyage, when making the ports
of Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Falmouth, or in
sighting the Longships. It is, indeed, possible that
the shin may have been carried westward of her
course by the tide, which was ebbing from 5.30 a.m.
till past midday. It is precisely to counteract the
risks of accidents from defects of compasses, influ-
ences of tides or currents, or such other unforeseen
contingencies, that the use of the lead is so indis-
pensable when the weather is so thick that objects
'cannot be seen ; and therefore, from whatever
cause the deviation in this case arose, it will not
furnish an excuse for the neglect to take sound-
ings. The Smalls Light was not sighted, and the
master ought to have known that he was much to
the westward, inasmuch as, at the time he passed
that lighthouse, the weather was sufficiently clear to
see a distance of some miles. It was, therefore, his
duty to have sounded—at all events before running
his distance as far as the Tuskar—as, in the then
state of the weather, he could not have expected to
sight that light at any considerable distance.
There is the less excuse for this neglect, as the
proper channel from the Smalls to the Tuskar
is marked by a well-defined line of deep sound-
ings. A glance at the chart would have shown
the master that, if the 'soundings shoaled under
40 fathoms as he proceeded, he was running into
danger. Had, therefore, a cast of the lead been
taken at 5 20 p.m., when the mainsail
.was reefed,
or afterwards, at 5.40, when the ship was hauled
up a point to the eastward, or, lastly, when the en-
gines were slowed to half speed, 10 minutes or a
quarter of a hour before the ship went on shore, he
would have been warned of his danger in time to
avoid it. The Court was, therefore, compelled to
come to the conclusion that the loss of the ship
must be attributed to the default of Captain Pascoe
in not using his lead, which the circumstances of
this case imperatively demanded, and adjudged that
the certificate of Captain Pascoe be suspended, and
it was thereby suspended, for the period of two years
from the sth day of December inst. The certificate
of Captain Pascoe was lost in the wreck. Several
very high testimonials of character were put in on
his behalf, to which, had this been a case that would
have permitted it, the Court would have given due
weight.

ADVICE.—A man advertised lately to forward
on receipt of postage stamps, "sound practical advice, that
would be applicable at any time, and to all persons and
conditions of life." On receipt of the stamps, he sent his
victim the following:—"Never give a boy a penny to watch
your shadow while you climb a tree to look into the middle
of next week."—American Paper.

ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN
RAnwer.—On Friday an accident occurred or. the Great
Western Railway, at Reading, which jeoparised the lives
of the passengers by the 11.50 mail train from Swindon.
Some trucks were being shunted near the Beading Station,
when ono of them broke away, and ran down the line some
distance. Every effort was made to shift the truck, but
this could not be dono until 9.he train approached. The
result was a collision, and the engine was thrown off the
metals, and became deeply embedded in the earth. The
passengers were much shaken and alarmed, but fortu-
nately none were seriously hurt. The engine was consi-
derably damaged, and a number of men wore occupied
several hours in clearing the line.

BUSIIEY PARK.--it is understood that Lord
Alfred Paget and family, will leave Melford-hall, Suffolk,
soon after Christmas, her Majesty having granted his lord-
ship the Great Lodge at Bushey-park, which was at one
bile occupied by flat) Duke of Clarouco.