The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-22
M o r E WR KS.

MORE WRECKS.
Strandlng % the Packet Ship 81. PaArsca-
| Safety er Her Passengers-uhlp suppessa
Ashore On Lsng Island-Schooners Aaxsan,
and Isabel Ashorc-Othcr Disasters.
Information reached the city yesterday morning thsk
the packet ship st. Patrick ashore at Barnsgat.
The st. Patrick Is commanded BY Capt. Whitman aua-
sailed from Liverpool Nov Is this city with upwardA
Of 400 passengers, and consigned to David Ogden.
The acsdsnt occurred At o'clock Tuesday svsniag
when tho tessel struck the shore two miles south -
Barnegat II very foggy at the time, rendering Il @
possible; to distinguish At any distance and tho wn
blowing strong north by east
Tho passengers all saved and arrived mp to -
city yesterday morning in several fishing schoonsss.
They number 43S, sixty Of them came up In the Nea
Buntlne, seventy in the Statesman sixty six In tAe
George Moore Afty In the King of the Forest nf
two in the Empire State and sixty In the Albert
Haley all fishing sehooners which fortunately were u
the vicinity at the time
The st. Patrick OF 800 tons built at Newburypost
Me- In 1874, and principally, mot entirely owned "
Mr. David Ogden, and insured for e4l 900 In this
city, equally divided between several Offices In waa
street She had 900 tons of COAL besides SALT ron &c.
valued At $50 000 covered by insurance Her freight
money not insured The ship valued st - oee
The captains Of the schoonsrs report that whom thv
left her. on Wednesday evening" there every probs
bility Of her being total loss She was thumpiug
heavily, and had feet of water In her hold
quantity of iron and other cargo had been thrown over
just before the Geo. Moore left her.
The news was Arst brought to the city early in tAA
morning by the pilot boat Thomas H. Smith, who saw hs
early Wednesday morning, whom she appeared hieA
and dry, with all her spars standng The pilot boat re-
ports the weather bad Tuesday evening and niAe
that impossible to reef The was also covwsA
with ice q foot thick.
The steam tug Titan, with lighter in tow with stssn
pumps, &c., Immediately despatched to her rsaise
by the underwriters. the weather kept moderate Il +
presumed she win be aHoat again.
ship, hailing from Brunswiek Me- was also repsse.
ed to be ashore yesterday at Morches ON Long aIsn
the scene Of the unfortunate disaster TO the sge8
Franklin. The report Is stated to have come a. nj
conductor Of the Long Island Railroad, who =. tAA
message handed to him the road, directed st1 s n
of 6. Swift Co., of this city From this y
ferred that the vessel was the Masonic, from 3ses
with passengers, daily expected 1t this port, sc 'a
rived during the afternoon, all SAFE
The arrival Of the O'Clock Long Island Il sir s
pected to bring further information regarding
but did not. We were Informed in the oven i 74ta
train from Yaphank, which Is immediately -
riches, had arrived without confirming the ~
the time of closing the several marine insu
last evening, nothing had reached them A.vx- =.
though they have agents all along the coast whose ba
bhcbb ~ 10 W niuountcy Stbnnms su0 Asos Va 0uy
aster immediately upon It's occurrence 1t may probaAv
be error.
Elwood Walter. Esq, the Secretary Of the Board q
Underwriters received despatch yesterday dated Nsr
folk Dec. q, stating that the schooner Adrian Of A
vannah, from Ieghorn for New York, sAseo.e
there, leaking badly. g
The pilot boat Moses H. Grinnsll also reporter
ashore yesterday We subsequently Informed thse
she got ashore the point Of the Hook but fortunately
in oaed dwith dau
The bark Georgia. arrived yesterday from Dublin haA
bosterous passage having experienced heavy westerly
gales during the whole time She had her deck house
washed away, stove her life boat, and lost jb-boos
sails, &c. She thirty mine days west Of Sasas
Island
The schooner KngGsher, arrived from Gonaives, expe
renced heavy weather. and lost deck load split sA kc
On 10th inst in lat SO TO- on 70 So she spoke brig
from Savannah for Baltimore under jury masts having
been dismasted two days before.
The schooner Planter, (of Dennis Captain Baker, u
also lost The ship Lady Franklin, arrived yesterda1
from Liverpool the 9th instant in lat Al 20 lon. -
80, vessel with signal of distress flying and
running down to her discovered 1t to be the Planter -
sinking condition, with the exhausted from thss
exertions in bailing. All hands, six in number, wse
immediately taken board the ship, but II blowing
very strong at the time they able 10 nothing
than they stood in The distressed mariners
treated with every kindness by Captain Thompson, ee
the Lady Franklin for which they desire publicly
turn their warmest thanks.
Unfortunately, the Lady Franklin while in tow in ~.
East river, went ashore Diamond Reef. She
pected to be got OF next high water.
The bark Venus, arrived yesterday from Curacao,
ports Dec 8, in about lat % Ion. 90, making out
wreck to the Westward and bearing down to withia
fifty feet OF her. found her to be vessel Of about 90
TONS apparently British, but could not her nas.
She water-logged, and the sea was making clsar
breach over her. Her main and mizen masts were
standing aad the main yard aoft her anchors to The
bow and chains bent. The carved work the sterns
represented crowned Neptune in the centre. She had
probably been boarded previously the mizen mast
stripped.
The Venus also passed on the 17th lat 81 TO- lon
70 80, quantity Of cotton bales and pine logs.
The Venus reports the death of Daniel BENJAMIN, sk.
Curscos, the 27th Of November, Of fever. Two
others-Thos Mccarthy and John Nicholswere left A.
the hospital there, sick with the fever.
The bark Gem Of tho Sea, arrived yesterday FROM
Malaga suffered by the bad weather. having lost hs
foretopgalant mast and had most Of her sails blown
away, besides receiving other damage She had besa
twenty days 70 the westward Of Bermuda witas
heavy gales.
The Gem of the Sea spoke on the 18th inst tho Bri
tsh vessel Helen Maud Of Halifax bound to this city,
from jamaica with loss Of most Of her sails.
OUR MARINE CORRESPONDENCE.
RvERmAD Long Island, Dec. 20, 1885,
TO rK EDITOR THE HEnALD.
large quantity Of lumber ashore opposite ths
place, on the Sound shore, (about mes,) few
Gays ago. supposed to have been swept from the dAck
Of q vessol to have come from Connecticut. The.
names Tinker, Dusen and Copeland marked so.s
OF the sticks. OLD SUFFOLK
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