Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-04-03
DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.

DREADFUL Shlf" hEN N.
One hund,ed and Tgenty -f,ro persons droTned.
One of the most appalling disasters a, sea ev-
err recorded, occurred IN the Irish Channel, on the
night of the 10Th of February. The New York
ship Governor Fenner sailed from Liverpool al
noon on that day, with one hundred and twenty
four persons board-and when OF Holy heae,!a'
two hours past midnight she came IN COLLISION
with the Dublin steamer Nottingham wh'ch W." ~
on its way from Dablin 10 Liverpool, and me
Governor Fenner sunk Immediately, only .he
roas,a. ID ~~~~ri"s. TITO Li'c' pun fA'oi-
on gives the following relation Of The circumstan-
ces, q they were taken down from the mouth OF
Mr.. Andrews the master Of the emigrant ship:
awe sailed from Liverpool on Friday last at
noon 18th the wind at S. s. w. The crew con-
sisted Of seventeen, and the passengers in the
sieerago amounted to LOG. We had full cargo
Of manufactured goods. On Saturday morning,
At two O'Clock, the wind blowed fresh from $. s.
", and when the ship under double reefed
topstaiis, the glib, spanker and maInsall IN, saw
steamer TO windward on the larboard bow. The
ships helm was Immediately put hard a-port.-
The steamer crossed orr bow, and VIC situ"k her
right nidships. From the force of the collision,
il was evident that either the ship or the steam
would sick or perhaps both. Instantly felt
that the ship, the bows of which were stove in,
was sinking. called out TO the crew (al the pas
sepgers below,) 10 endeavor to save their
lives. They, instead OF running forward through
fear ran aft.
Nv first object was to endeavor TO save the
crew and passengers; but rapid was the sink
ing Of tho ship, found il impossible to do any
thing TO accomplish that object. and the mate
then ran forward, and, finding the ship fas. sink
Ing | tried to Jump the sieamer.-Faiiing IN
nv first attempt through momentary lain,ns.s,
made second and just as the ship was at the
waters edge, succeeded in grasping rope which
was hanging over the steamers side. The mate
saved his life by jumping from the fore-yard arm
to tho steamers deck. In one minute the ship
sank, with sixteen of her crew and all the pas
sengers, amounting together to one hundred and
twenty-five souls. The steamers boat was IN
stantly lowered for the purpose of making an at
tempt TO save such of the crew and passengers
as might be floating, but il unfortunately swamp
ed alongside.
The Albion adds some further particulars.
"The Nottingham, which now lies on the east
side of the Clarence Dock, was yesterday visited
by thousands OF curious spectators. Her stair
board side was complete wreck; even the hou-
ses on tho deck adjoining were shivered into
fragments. The dead animals, and sheep,
covered the deck, and presen ted shocking sight,
most of them having been disembowelled by the
conclusion which caused their death. The passen-
gers ION board the emigrant ship were all below
in their berths when the collision between the
ship and tho steamer took place. The shock
caused by il would, OF course, rouse even those
who might then have been asleep.
'No doubt they would make rush towards the
deck; the interval which elapsed, however, be-
tween tho shock and the sinking short,
scarcely five minutes,) that very few, 1t any,
could have succeeded in reaching it. So that,
in all probability, they persisted in the Storage
The mate had been married only few days be-
fore the ships sailing; the captain had given his
wife berth with her husband in the cabin; when
the fate of the ship became inevitable, he attempt
ed TO run aft to rescue her; but timo failed him
the instinct Of selfpreservation became strong
no sprung up the shrouds, aud reached the steam
er by jumping from the yard-arm."