The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

THE LATE STORM AT SEA.-LOSS OV LIFE .

At Rotbesay. on Friday last, the William, of Gloucester' I
foundered off the south end of the Bute. Two of the crew
were lost with her. Their bodies have since been washed
ashore, and interred in Kingarth•churchyard. On the night
of the 26th of last month, during a fearful hurricane from the
N.W., four vessels were totally lost off Halifax—the Sophia,
Thomburn, from Sydney, for that port; the barque Argyle.
of Waterford ; an American ship, name unknown, on the
rock at Point Novo ; and the Free Trader, belonging to
Liverpool. In the case of the Argyle, the crew, amounting
to seventeen persons, were all lost. Those of the other
wrecks succeeded in making the coast in safety.
In addition to the wrecks of the convict-ship Waterloo and
the Abercrombie Robinson, the following vessels met with a
similar fate during the same storm :—The John Bagshaw,
crew all saved ; the American packet-ship Fairfield, valued
at £20,000, crew all saved ; the Spanish schooner Sabina,
with a cargo worth £lBO,OOO, at Algoa Bay • the brig Henry
Hoyle, of London; the Reform, a brig: the Ghika and Al-
batross, schooners; all on the same coast, and within a few
miles of each other. Twenty-one persons perished with.the
Sabina. The extent of loss of the above vessels, including
the Abercrombie Robinson and the Waterloo, is estimated
at between £300,000 and £400,000.
The storm at Cadiz on the 18th of last month was attended
with the most disastrous effects. While it raged, upwards
of twenty sail are said to have been lost • among them were
the subjoined :—The French brig Letitia, with a valua-
ble cargo of wheat, from Pont L'Abbe for Marseilles, foun-
dered off Santa Petre ; loss about £2,000 7 out of the crew
of 11 seamen, 8 met with a watery grave. Another French
vessel, Emanuel, Captain Webb, drove on the rocks near
Cape Candour, and instantly was lost ; she was laden with
codfish, bound for Cette ; the crew, excepting one, was
saved. The Spanish schooner 'Valencia, with fruit on board,
was totally wrecked on the sand of Santa ; crew saved them-
selves by the boats belonging to the ship.
The Engliih brig, called the Eight, belonging to London,
wrecked on the coast at Tariffa ; those on board were saved
by a vessel that happened to be near at the time, and taken
to Cadiz ; her cargo consisted of wheat, which had been
shipped at Alexandria for Liverpool, for which port she was
bound; she is insured to the extent of £3,000. The brigan-
tine Aurora, Captain Pepin, on Jersey, wos lost near the
spot ; also the Galieia, the Jean Armand, and a Spanish
vessel, called the Nuew, at Couil.
On Tuesday, the Bth instant, at Copenhagen, a ship, cal-
led the D'll Geshwister, of Emden, from Koningsberg for
the river Thames, was lost on the Dutch coast, near Duelind
point, at Bornholm. A fishing-boat, in attempting to reach
the vessel, cspsized, and its unhappy freight, consisting of 5
fishermen, were drowned. The crew were afterwards saved,
in consequence of the weather m9derating. They were taken
off the rigging.

The following are extracts from letters received from
France, from which it will be seen that the lamentable loss of
the Reliance has not been the only catastrophe which has
happened during the late tempestuous weather :

" HAVRE-DE-GRACE, Nov. 15.—1 t is reported from St.
Vallery-sur-Somme of the 13th, that the French lugger
Armoricain, from Bordeaux for Abbeville, was lost on the
morning of the 12th, on the banks at the entrance of that
port, and only one of the crew saved. Her cargo, consisting
of wine and brandy, was scattered along the whole coast of
Crotoy, and several of the casks have been picked up and
secured for the benefit of those interested. The number of
lives supposed to have been lost is five."
" CALMS, Nov. 16.—0 n Sunday last, the Alexander,
Captain Gay, from Bordeaux for Dunkirk, with a general
cargo, consisting of wine, brandy, &c., while coming into
harbour, during a strong gale from the eastward, and a heavy
sea rolling, was driven with great violence against the pier-
head, sustained much damage, and must discharge her cargo
before the necessrry repairs can be made. Next day (Mon-
day) the Little Henry, of and from Dartmouth, for Hay's-
wharf, London, was totally wrecked on the coast during a
severe storm from the north-west. The crew were saved,
but her cargo was lost. The wrecked hull and rigging were
sold on Tuesday.