The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

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SHIPWRECK NEAR LIVERPOOL, AND LOSS

OF TWELVE LIVES.

VTe regret to state that,onFridaymorning, the schooner
Emma, Captain John Steers, from Newfoundland to this
port, was wrecked upon the Burbo Bank, and that the
master, a pilot, and ten seamen, were drowned.

Robt. Thomas, the mate, was alone saved, and he gives
the following particulars of the fatal occurrence :—The
Emma, of Liverpool, was 153 tons register. He sailed in
her from St. John's, Newfoundland, on the 26th ult., for
this port, as mate, under the command of Mr. John Steers.
The crew consisted in all of ten persons, including officers,
with two invalid seamen as passengers. Nothing parti-
cular occurred on the voyage until the 20th instant, when
they received on board a Liverpool pilot, the vessel at the
time being about five miles to the N.E. of the North-west
Light-ship. The pilot made for the Formby Channel,
The vessel drifted lust the Formby Lightship, and, about
nine o'clock in the evening, finding the tide carrying the
schooner towards the Burno Bank, he let go the anchor
and broneht the vessel up. She rode there until about
one o'clock on Friday morning. The pilot had been called
an hour previously. The ebb tide was running very strong;
and, about a quarter past one o'clock, the captain and he
(the mate), who were below, felt the vessel strike, and im-
mediately went on deck. All hands were summoned, but
the vessel went over on her side, and so remained until
the flood made. They got the boats out, ran out the
stream anchor, and hove the hawser tight that the anchor
might come home. About three a.m., the flood making,
the vessel began to reel from side to side, and swung with
the bead to the southward, being only afloat forward,—
the wind blowing fresh at. the time from the W.S.W.
The long-boat sank alongside, and the punt was useless in
the sea then running. At half-past three, they found the
rudder gone ; and the crew tried to make torches and
show lights as signals of distress to the light-ship. The
sea was running high on the bank, and all hands took to
the rigging. Shortly afterwards, the vessel reeled over
again, and the crew then clung to the guys of the davits.
About five o'clock in the morning, the captain was washed
away, then the pilot, and, one by one, all the rest of the
crew, except himself. He began to despair, and was be-
nummed with cold. He held on till about eight o'clock
in the morning, when a steam-tug (the Powerful) came up
.nd threw out a rope. Thomas seized this and fastened it
round his middle, and so was drawn through the sea on
bowl' the tug in a most exhausted state.
The Emma was consigned to Mersrs. Job Brothers, of
this town, and her cargo consisted of oil and seal skins.
The carpenter's chest has been washed up; he is named
Nurse, and the contents, comprising some money, will be
forwarded to his wife, in London. With this exception,
the names of none of the crew are known, as they must
mostly have shipped in Newfoundland •, and the whole of
the ship's papers have been lost. The pilot's name is
Chaffers, son of Mr. Chaffers, of the landing-stage.