The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS

Never, perhaps, for the last half century, has there been
such a continuation of tempestuous weather, as during
the last month. We give, in our shipping intelligence,
an account of several distressing shipwrecks, and among,t
them that of the St. David steamer, trading betweeri this
port and Havre. There were, including the crew, nearly
forty persons on board, all of whom perished, and the
vessel must have gone to pieces; but no distinct account
can be obtained about her.

The steamer Tom Bowling, belonging to North Shields,
was wrecked off the Dutch coast, and all hands perished.
The Dutch Indianian, Twee Cerucleleuses, wrecked in
Pevensey Bay, near Eastbourne, on Sunday morning last,
had a cargo valued at £30,000, which was totally lost
with the ship. Two other Indiamen were lost more to
the westward, one called the Kate Nickleby, belonging to
Glasgow, laden with rum, sugar, and other West Indian
produce ; and the other named the Ness, from Demerara
to Bristol. As regards the loss of the former ship, no-
thing has been mentioned as to the fate of the crew. She
is insured, we believe, for several thousands. The other
wreck happened on Tuesday morning, on the coast near
Padstow. Part of her cargo has been saved, viz.: about
twenty casks of rum, and the same number of hogsheads
of sugar, none of the latter seriously damaged. The
wreck is under the protection of the military, who were
called out by the custom-house authorities to prevent pil-
lage The ship and cargo is valued at £40,000. Within
a short distance of the spot where the Ness went ashore,
a vessel, which turned out to be the Albion schooner, 160
tons burthen, belonging to Brixham, and laden with iron
rails, was totally lost, and all hands except one man. She
wa, from Newport, bound to Ramsgate ; her cargo of rails
being for the intended railway of that town, now in course
of formation by the South Eastern Railway Company.
To the westward of Dungeness Bay, near Rye, two most
fatal wrecks happened during Christmas-day and the suc-
ceeding night. The names of the ill-fated vessels were
the Elizabeth, coal laden, from Sunderland to Rouen,
and the Eliza, of North Shields, the property of Mr.
Fleming, also coal laden, for Honflour ; and, dreadful to
relate, every soul belonging to them, amounting to 20
persons, were drowned. Similar catastrophies occurred
off Wisbeach, Cromer, Yarmouth, Robin Hood's Bay,
and Calais. That at the first-named port was the loss of
a brig called the Young Adam, of Skegness, and seven of
her crew perished. Off Cromer, the Richard, of Elsi-
nore, foundered, and all on board, nine in number, went
down in her. At Yarmouth, some miles out, two vessels
were seen to founder, and as their crews have not been
seen or heard of, it is supposed that every soul belonging
them was sacrificed ; and at Calais, the Montague, of
Newcastle, for Honfleur, also foundered. The crew,
eight in number, took to the beat just before she went
down, and were making for the shore, when the boat cap-
sized, and the whole of them perished. Since then their
bodies have been picked up, and it was owing to some
papers being found upon them that the name of the ill-
fated craft was ascertained. Round the neck of each of
the bodies were medals of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and
Mariners Benevolent Institution, 1845.
Thirteen coasting vessels were driven ashore during the
gales off different parts of the Welsh and the more distant
portion of the Western coast.

Along the Dutch coast the sacrifice of property has
been equally as great as off the English. The total num-
ber of vessels reported to have been lost amounts to 16.
The Belgian and French c ,ast have been visited with si-
milar disasters, also occasioning a deplorable loss of life.