Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-06-12
HORRID AFFAIR AT SEA.
Loss of the Ship William Brown, from LII
yerpOOI for Philade lphia.

Loss of the Ship william Brown, from LIZ
verpoOl for Philadelphia.
The Caledonia Steamer brings the following dis
tressing intelligence of most melancholy ship.
wreck:
HAvnE, May 10, ls4l.-The Louis Philippe,
New York packet ship, has thi. moment arrived
Information having reached the town that some
shpreckcd seamen were on board, the report be-
came general that they belonged to the President,
and the excitement was beyond all description. On
the arrival in dock, however, a strong body Of the
gendarmerc were in waiting, and Immediately took
into custody the mate and eight of the Of the
ship William Brswn, bound from Liverpool to PHI
ladelphia, which was sunk by an iceberg in the
latter part Of last month, for as vet cannot give
you precise dates for any thing except ,ha, three
men were taken from the Crescent, which vessel
had picked them up in their long boats. But tale
of horror is 10 be told about them. 1t appears
when the vessel struck, thirty.,hree passengers the
mate, and eight Of the crew. took to the long boat
the captain, three of the crew, and eleven passen-
gers took to the jolly boat; all the rest sunk with
The vessel. The boats parted in the night. Some
DAYS after, the mate and crew determined (as they
say, in order to tighten the boat) TO throw seventeen
of the passengers overheard, which they accom-
! pshed, and some of the mos, horrid ard revolving
! scenes took place.
There were two brothers and a sister of one fa-
! my the brothers were thrown over and the sister
| jumped in after them. One fine boy prayed for a
few minutes to say his prayers; they refused and
hu,led him into the sea at once. Some clung to
the side of the boat, praying for mercy, but their
hands were cut of, and they pushed into the
deep. Fifteen ladies and two men remained in the
boat. One hour after this massacre, the Crescent
fell in with tho boat and saved the survivors of thi,
holrd deed. The passengers remained on board
the Crescent, the crew arrived in the Vile dc Ly-
on-ihey arc now under examination before the
American Consul The result | will not fail tc
communicate to you iut you may rely on wha,
have already stated. The Jolly boat has not been
heard Of The dates of the Vile de Lyon have
been anticipated by the Acadia. The following
additional particulars ole given by Galignanit
Messenger-"Ihe ship was Of PhilaJelphia; he
company consisted Of seventeen persons, and sh,
had sixty five steerage passengersneaTly all lrlsl
with full cargo on board. She had "a rougl
passage out and struck against field Of ice at
Z. NJ. when going under all sail, al the rate Of lei
knots an hour, in lat. 43 deg, 40 min. north, an
= long. 43 deg. 81 min. west, by account She stov
in her arbosrd how, and within Two minutes slruc
4 another field Of ice,
The ship soon began to fill, and the captain an
crew got out the boats, which cleared away
= u. At midnight the ship went down, and the th
ty passengers who could not be tken into the boz
. were drowned in her. They lay by each other Ii
|, 5, A. NJ when the captain in the cutter sleered f
: Newfoundland.-1he long boat, being very heavil
!. laden with many persons, AZ in ALL could not
e managed, and WIS obliged to steer to the souu
Is At midnight she Tell in with more ice, and ihe win
e came on to blow hard, the boat began to leak bad
D, and shipped good deal of water Finding 81
was likely sink, the mate consulted with the GREY
1t and il was deemed necessary to throw ovcrboa
e such Of the passengers as were nearly dead. 81
r, teen were then thrown into the sea and pcrishe
while the rest were nearly stiff with tho exlren
1. cold. Shortly sfte, ship hove in sight and d
captain, Who was VI slof, locking out for ice. 50