The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-09 00:00:00

THE LATE GALE.

SHIELDS, THURSDAY NIGHT.
We have still more doleful particulars to record
of the effects of the stormy weather in the North
Sea. On Monday afternoon! the weather having
moderated, some twenty sail of laden vessels left
the Tyne; to-night the survivors of the crew of one
of those vessels—the Sunbeam, of Shields—have
returned home, having lost their vessel the night
after they sailed off Flamborough Head. Their
ship was run into on Tuesday night by a large
American bark, and sunk immediately. Some of
the men escaped in one of the boats, but the master
and four of the crew were drowned. The name of
the American vessel is not known. The survivors
of the crew of the fine new ship Darius, of South
Shields, which only left the Wear this night week,
and was wrecked on the Longsands on Saturday
morning, have arrived at their homes here in a
very deplorable condition. The Darius was a vessel
of 26 keels, but was laden with 23 keels, and was
on her first voyage out to Constantinople. She
had a crew of 10 hands on board. She ran on
to the Longsands in thick weather, stormy,
with snow showers, on Saturday morning ; and as
the sea increased the crew cut away the mainmast
and foremast. But the vessel began to sink into the
sand, and the stumps of the two masts coming up
through the deck two of the crew and an apprentice
lad got into one of the boats and remained in her
some time, banging by the stern; until the painter
broke, and they were washed away and seen no
more. The remainder of the poor fellows took to
the mizenmast, and clung to the rigging. The more
the vessel sunk into the sand the more the sea swept
the hapless creatures. One of them was a poor lad
from the country, a nephew of one of the owners,
on his first voyage. The mate, a man named Meall,
a good sailor, took charge of him and held him in
his arms in the rigging many hours until the poor
lad, in sheer exhaustion, fell into the sea; another
of the crew perished in a similar manner, and it
was not until Sunday night, after the sea had con-
siderably abated, that the forlorn seamen, after
being exposed 36 hours in the rigging, and swept
all that time by the fury of the tempest, and ex-
pecting every moment to be their last, were rescued
by some smacks, and taken into Harwich in a very
exhausted condition. The master of the vessel was
much cut about the head. A little Scotch schooner,
the Gainsborough Packet, of Montrose, appears to
have foundered off Filey on Saturday, with all
hands. An inquest was held at Sunderland yester-
day on the body of Edward Welsh, a young sailor
belong to Stockton, who was drowned under very
distressing circumstances at Sunderland on Satur-
day afternoon. Three little Scotch vessels came
ashore at the mouth of the %%Tear, and one of them
ran close up to the high-water mark. Welsh had
attempted to get a line to the vessel, but while doing
so a sea swept round the vessel's stern and carried
him and a shipmate to sea by the back sweep.. His
shipmate was saved, but, after a hard battle for
life, poor Welsh was drowned in the presence of
hundreds of spectators, who could render him
no assistance. A gallant fellow, a soldier in the
58th Regt., made a noble effort to:save him, how-
ever, and nearly lost his life in so doing, for
had he not been caught by the jacket and
hauled out of the water he too would have been
swept away and lost. Vessels that have arrived
here from the Baltic and North of Europe report
that they encountered a fearful gale on Friday and
Saturday, but the wind with them was from the
S.W.—the gale with us, it will be remembered, was
from the N.N.W.

GREAT YARMOUTH, THURSDAY.
Daily evidence continues to be furnished of the
violence of the gale which swept this coast on Satur-
day and Sunday last. . Upwards of 20 vessels have
put into this harbour since Sunday, some dismasted,
and all more or less damaged, among them the
Gleaner, of this port (master, Boyfield, son of the
owner), having been washed away in the storm;
the Diamond fishing lugger, belonging to Scar-
borough, with loss of master and one man ; and a
Yarmouth lugger, with loss of one man. It is now
ascertained that one of the two luggers, the total
loss of which, with all hands, we reported on Wed-
nesday, was the Triumph,. of this port, and the
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Scarborough on Sunday, were landed here to-day,
having been picked up by the Josephine, of Aber-
deen. The crew were taken to the Sailors' Home,
making 19 shipwrecked seamen received into this
excellent institution during the week, and 44 during
the last 10 days.

AT SEA DURING THE GALE.—An interesting
story is told by the captain of the Yarborough, a
largo steamer, which left Grimsby last Friday, but
was driven back by the gale:—Oa leaving Grimsby
on the Ist inst. the wind was blowing moderately
from the N.N,W. Nothing happened till 4 a.m. of
the 2d (Saturday), the ship being then about 40
miles N.E. of the Spurn, Flamboiough Head being
about N.W. The weather was (lark and gloomy,
the wind from the northward blowing a hurricane.
She was under a close-reefed mainsail and easy
steam, ship's head to sea. "At 7 4,111.," the log says,
" the sea began to wash away the bulwarks. Put
the ship before the sea and wind to make for the Hum-
ber. At 9 a,m. the decks were filled fore and aft, and
then hauled the ship to the wind, and put a tarpaulin
in the mizen rigging to keep her bow to the sea. At
10 a.m. a fearful sea struck the vessel on the star-
board side, sweeping the deck and everything move-
able, also stanchions, bulwarks, rails, lifeboat, galley,
warps, breaking the funnel stay, cabin windows,
skylights, &c. Attempted to ran the vessel before
the wind and sea, and in doing E 0 the warps, which
had been previously worked front the deck, got en-
tangled with the propeller and stopped the engine,
in consequence of which the ship became unman-
ageable. At 2 p.m. the water extinguished the fires
in the engine-room ; set the crew to work at the
hand-pumps, but they had to discontinue working
at them, as they were continually being washed
'way. As the ship was settling down, made for

the Humber, and hoisted signals of distress. 4 a.m.
—Anchored six miles from the Spurn in the hope
of saving the ship, but in this were disappointed,
for the sea ran over the vessel, the dead-lights for-
ward were washed in, and the water was rapidly
gaining on the pumps. Deemed it prudent to slip
the cable and let the steamer drive on the sand,
with a view of saving our lives. She came to the
ground, Sandhead Flat, about 7 a.m., and in fifteen
minutes she filled. Remained on board till 7 a.m.,
the captain and eighteen of the crew taking refuge
is the cabin, the remaining three in the main rig-
ging. Those in the cabin then got out by the sky-
light and launched the two remaining boats, and
succeeded in gettinr,b to the land. Two of the three
men who took to the rigging remained when the
boats left, and owing to the fearful sea that was
running no attempt could be made to get them off."
The survivors were landed at Ingold Mills, on the
Lincolnshire shore, to the southward of the Spurn.
The loss of the ship and cargo is estimated at near
£20,000. The owners are insured, and about £7,000
will fall upon the underwriters at Lloyd's.