The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-03

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thu terra Melancholy CataIegus.
The winter Of 1886 will ever be resAembered
a. seasooof unusual tempests and storms- The
noah q January, in particular, will not be forgot
ten. We shudder a. we read the record of ships,
goes and lives destroyed by the severe cold and
the terrific gales which prevailed during that month
along our entire seaboards But the full extent Of
these disasters can never be known. In addition to
those wrecks and losses that have been reported
from time to time, the winter has passed away,
there many whose story no one can accurately
tell Ships sailed from ports during that month
which have not yet been heard from. They are still
missing; but their disastrous fate which has long
been conjecture, may now be regarded as fact.
They were overwhelmed by the terrific gales of
January, and were engulfed with all their lives and
property, in the stormy sea
On the evening ofthe 5th Of January last, severe
snow storm commenced, which extended from Hall.
fax to the Capes of Virginia. This storm increased
to violent gale, which prevailed at different points
during the 9Th, 7th and sth of that month. Durag
this gale large number of vessels were wrecked in
this vicinity, among which was the Portuguese bark
Due de Braganza, that was driven upon the Jersey
coast at night. Every soul on board persisted, and
nothing but fragments of the wreck were found in
the morning
or the large number of vessels that are now miss
ing the majority sailed from this port just before
the commencement of this gale. Of these two
ships, one bark, two briggs and two schooners sailed
from New York two barks and two schooners sailed
from Boston; one schooner sailed from Charleston;
one from Baltimore, one from Delaware, one from
New London, one from Holmes Hole, one from
Bucksport, and one brig and one schooner from the
British Provinces. We have no doubt that all these
foundcred at sea in the memorable gale of the 6th
7th, sth and 9th of January.
The following is a list Of these missing vesses:-
Ship Leah sailed from New York for Europe
January 4. She new ship, of 400 tons, built
at Mystic and owned in this city Size was com
manded by Captain Jonathan Nathan, had o crew
of twenty.four men, and heavy cargo of grain and
produce, valued at 100000. This her first voy
age. She has never been heard FROM
Ship Robert Carnley, Captain Whitmore, sailed
from New York for Antwerp January2 She was
good ship of 92l tons, built in 1854, and owned in
this city. She had on board thirtyfour persons, in
Guiding twelve German passengers, and had heavy
cargo Of grain and provisions, valued at 100000
Nothing has been heard from her since she sailed.
Bark A. F. Jenness, Captain Osgood, of Portland
sailed from New York for Antwerp January s. load
ed with grain and provisions, and is still missing
Brig Angostura, Captain Sanborn, sailed from
New York for Cork January with cargo of Ia 900
bushels of corn in bulk, and has not been heard
from. Had eleven persons on board.
Brig H. W. Noncure, of Baltimore, sailed from
New York January Is, and has never been heard
from.
Schooner Mary Ann Guest sailed from New York
for Philadelphia January 3, and has never been
heard from. She had cargo of $50 sacks Of salt.
Schooner John Phillips sailed from New York for
Kingston, Jamaica, January 5, with cargo Of pro-
visions, and is still missing.
Nothing has been heard of the bark Helen A.
Warren, Capt r. S. Chase which sailed from Bos.
ton for Portland, Me-, January 4; nor of the bark
Sarah B. Hale Capt. Crowther, which sailed from
Boston for Mobile January 10; nor Of the bark Ben
jamin Adams, Capt. Merriman, which sailed from
Boston for Mobile, with cargo Of ice, January s;
aor Of the schooner Tioga, Capt VIM. Tyler, which
oailed from Boston for Cardenas January 3-her
srgo consisted Of 100 bbls. potatoes 1000 boxes Of
..sooks, and 241 empty hogsheads; nor Of the
ashooner Kate Holbrook, of Rockland, Capt. Kellar
hich sailed from Boston for Darien Co., in ballast,
January 4.
Other missing vessels that went to Just before
this gale, and probably foundered in it, are the
schooner Daniel c. Currey, which sailed from Mis-
sssippi Creek Del, for New York about January |;
the schooner o. G. Parshley, which sailed from New
London for Charleston loaded with stone, December
%; the schooner L. S. Pond, of Portland which
sailed from Baltimore for Boston December 81, and
was seen January ten miles south Of Highland
Light Cape Cod the schooner Almeda, which sailed
from Bucksport for Potomac river December %,
with cargo of hay; the schooner Havana, which
sailed from Charleston January for port in North
Carolina; the schooner Charles A. Hannum, from
Charleston for Boston, which sailed from Holmes
Hole January 6; the brig Ocean Bride, which sailed
from Halifax for Liverpool December 80; the brig
Hesperus, of wiscasset, which sailed from Boston
for the Caribbean Sea january.
1t was in this gale that the packet ship st. Denis
from New York to Havre, foundered January 6, in
long. ~ deg, lat. 80 deg.
To this long list OF missing ships may now be
added the ship Ocean Queen, which sailed from New
London for New York February Is; the ship Driver,
which sailed from Liverpool for New York February
II; the British ship Independence, which sailed
from Liverpool for New Orleans January lG; the
snip haSdnaj Which, sdHeu IfoM I've" AoiA ioi LUZ
donderry January 10; the ship Stephen Brown,
which sailed from New York for Havre February s;
and the United States mail steamship Pacific, which
sailed from Liverpool for New York January 49, All
these ships have probably persisted in the ice, which
has blockaded the Atlantic ocean during the past
winter to an extent never before known
There are other ships which sailed from our own
ports and from Europe during the past winter
months now out beyond their time Some Of these,
doubtless, must finally be added to this mournful
catalogue Of vessels that sailed from port and never
were heard from.
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