The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

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again put to sea. He had scarcely .ot
when another gale arose. On Monday a tremer
rolled, and it became necessary to ly-to almost under bar
poles._ _ At 9 P.M.. Ushant Light was seen, bearing

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At half-past rine a frightful sea broke over the ship, car-
rying away the deck-houses and the greatest part of the
larboard paddle-box, which was floated almost entire on
the quarter-deck. At this moment the ship was literally
ingulphed ; not a bit of the bulwarks or remaining deck-
houses was to be seen ; and although the weight of water
on board must have exceeded 100 tons, the ship (an iron
one) immediately rose. Had she not been so quick, the
seas following might have done serious mischief. There
was no resource but to put back for repairs. Fortunately
no accident occurred to the passengers or crew. The
mails and passengers for India were transferred to the
steamer always kept in reserve by the company against an
emergency.

The gales caused much havoc on the more eastern parts
of our coast, and an equal amount of mischief in the
North Sea. At times it blew a perfect. hurricane from the
S. S. W., and at its height several vessels were instanta-
neously lost on the Gunfleet Sands, The City of London
steamer, from Rotterdam for London, had a very narrow
escape. She left Rotterdam on Saturday, and the same
night was thrown on her beam ends, the sea bursting
furiously over her decks. A number of cattle were washed
overboard and lost. Upwards of thirty bullocks and
sheep also died on board during the raging of the storm.
The captain, Mr. Cook, very wisely determined to run for
Harwich, and, after encountering further fearful weather,
succeeded in making the harbour.—A three-masted vessel

and a brig were seen- to go down with all hands, it is sup.
posed, to the westward of that port. The crews of the
Albion and Bridgeholm were rescued, and are reported to
have been taken on to Gravesend.—The accounts from
Yarmouth, Cromer, and other places along the northern
coast, communicate a sad list of casualties. In the road-
stead off Yarmouth the shipping suffered severely. The
Concord, Mr. Clum, master, of Ramsgate, got ashore on
the Sheepwash Sands during the night, and all attempts
to save her proved fruitless. The life boat was launched,
and by dint of the usual exertions of the Yarmouth boat-
men, rescued the crew. The unfortunate vessel was to-
tally lost, and in the course of the morning the Darling-
ton packet, belonging to Stockton, met with a similar fate
on the Scroby Sands. The captain, however, and his crew
were preserved. Every port along the coast has had to
record its losses in shipping.
On the Saturday a large ship, timber-laden, was totally
lost with all hands, on the Godwin Sands. A quantity of
the wreck had been washed up, but nothing that could
lead to her name. On the same night the New Holland,
from Port-au-Prince, for London, was driven on the
same sands. The crew were picked up by the Tartar,
lugger. A number of vessels run into Ramsgate, with
loss of cables,. anchors, &c. _ _ _

At Shoreham the gale was severely felt. On Sunday
the captain of the Diligence, of Brightonsea, descried two
vessels to have foundered in the Swin, on the south side of
the Gunfleet. Their names were not ascertained. Fur-
ther northward, on the Gunfleet, two other vessels, the
Albion and the Bridgeholm were wrecked,—both crews
saved.
At Sheerness much anxiety existed, on Tuesday last,
as to the fate of the Magnet, Rotterdam steamer, which
had not been seen or heard of since the Saturday previous.
She left Rotterdam on Friday. She was due in the
Thames early on Sunday morning.—The Sylph of Dun-
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chief. Three vessels Were lost in the district, namely,
John Whall, belonging to Shields ; the Tyne, bound to
Port Dundas ; and the Thomas, from Seahan;to Dundee.
In each instance, however, the crews are stated to have
been saved.

Much injury has also been done on the French coast.
The royal yacht Comte d' Eu, which went out in tow of
the Alcide steamer on Saturday night, from Havre for
Cherburg, parted from her companion during the gale,
and was lost sight of near Barfleur. The Alcide got into
Havre, and some alarm prevailed as to the fate of the
other, which, however, might possibly have put into
Cherburg.
The Francis Lawson, barque, from America, for Bridg-
water, ran on shore on the 6th, at Warren Point, east-
ward of Minehead. The sea was making a breach right
over her. She was from Quebec.

SCOTLAND.—On the 7th, 20 or 30 beats were more or
less damaged at Newhaven.. A schooner was lost off
Cockburn path. The Scotsman of the. Bth says:—" The
wind at the outset Tas E.S.E., but it ultimately veered
round to the N.E., and in this direction it continued. At
Granton, three sloops, named the Poulton, the Ann, and
the Tontine, coal laden, from St. David's, ran ashore,
and were dashed to pieces. All the crews, however, were
saved, but some of them made very narrow escapes.

Much damage has been done to the new slip in the
course of construction, by the Edinburgh and Northern
Railway at Granton ; and all along the shore from thence
to Trinity, considerable injury has been done to the
remaining wall, and to that part of the old road which runs
between the railway and the sea-wall. Although the
railway is far above the high water-mark, yet so heavy
was the surge that it washed completely over it, covering
it in several places, with stones and gravel. '1 he tide, we
understand, rose five or six feet beyond its usual height.
About three-fourths of 60 fishermen's boats in Newhaven
bay were wrecked. The damage is estimated at £2OOO.
Much damage was done to the harbour at 111usselburgh,
and to the herring boats moored there. A vessel was
driven ashore at Cockburn path, and it was reported that
the crews were all saved by means of Captain Manby's
apparatus, brought from Lunbar.
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Point a foreign barque went to pieces. and the crew
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Coming nearer to our own port, we have to state that
the Amelia, from the bay of Fundy, struck on Puffin
Island, on Friday, and afterwards went on to the main,
where she remains, and is likely to become a complete
wreck. She has lost her rudder and keel, and is full of
water. _ _

The Margaret Ann, for Liverpool. from Newfoundland,
has put into Holyhead, with loss of boats, bulwarks, and
sails. She shipped a sea which filled her cabins, and
damaged her cargo.