The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-12

The Wreck Chart and Report Tor 1859.
The anus, ,,c =, s m
r. N, Surveyor 70 the Board q Trade, Allows thss zoe
number Of ships lives lost tho British during
Ssous year Az compared Win is5s the returns STOW
the folio wing rcsus;n 1858 tho numbsr OF cssnaiss
was ll7o ard that Of lives lost $40 wnn 10 ssg tue
no les Sn 16t6 THIS gives increase OF 2as
casusires ant SOS lives The report, however. atsri
butee graf chiefly tho terrible gales
Of October ard November last. which wsre With
out parallel both h violence and 10 tho immeass
amount Of injury Indicted By thsn on hun
CHARTER Che oo. 10 1--we. zoe we're . Ss
many (l2O were lot In tho Pomoos, An, So ~ere
three ships alone brought up the nuuSer OF dea 70
e2o The number Of casualties 10 Bctsn ehos very
greatly Dcreed In 1859, whilst those 10 foreign SHIPS 10
he ssDe trade bad dinGished The increase Of casual
pes 70 Brrsh sps from e27 In 1858 1877 10 1852
vhat foreign ships abowed decrease OF from 200 70
lss IN the same year Il = also staed that IN ono voyage
Of every IT'S sgee INSIDE BY British snips employ
IN the trsde with foreign countries cssasy has hap
peLed whilst In ooly voyage out Of SSo has casualty
The vessels whch sustained ths greatest Losses during
1850 the coal laden ooere 6t0 OF VIII "a met with
casualties seas year against as7 70 1858 OF hess-a.s
Of ships wh passengers and general cargo "a as,u.. "a
vcsses 70 which oasuAees nAppspeA. We find iron
eee that The sress number ~ee 70 ahps be' wcen soo
ages Of fourteen and .ss ysa Dsas 70 so'ss @
between three and seven years Of age There we're oi
vessels lost upwsrcs Of hy years DID, three OF this suoa
ber between eighty and ninety yeas Old one bstw
ntneV and huadrsd, and ono above hundred pears
old
no css Of vessels which Suffered mcst scho,ucrs
q which lo1 met with CASUALTIES, beside 992 bries 71
slco,s and IFS banks Il also shown teas cssuslsiss
occurred 70 vrsses Of different tn the following pro
portions. rsmely, between 100 and 300 tons, cas- wsses
were lost between 30 aud 100 TINS eos and belos 30
tons, 200 whilst the numbr Of vesssn OF from 400
10 go ions sp6 upwards lost wss DOLLY loo THIS may
be accounted for BY the fS that the ss vessss sre -
0 ruis commsbdcd by OF inferior sxii and afe not
nrrriy wen tso DOT End manned they are siso
conty exposed 70 the dangers which srss from pfof
lnty 10 the coast.
From The rppcss and from The admirable chart APPEND
ed TO H. nnd thai the wrecks aud casuses 90 ns css
Ell 1859 sxxinst SIG In 1858; tbs soutn
coast 1885, against So sid on tho west coast t6 sgus
Scs On tie Iah cost thore Q decsosse, "a,
ssartt les 10 1885, AMI also on the Sicily Ts'sad, 10
cresse from IL 1858 10 In 1850 The Isis VI hso
large viz: from In 1858 " - Ia 1859
soutos est vino this also she IN 1888 Toe
cssusss mi tna VIM amounted 10 1858 n li0 and "a
1889 lee Ecxt In dcsuctivcocss wss ms ves soJta
~ud which pro5uc "a Ic4 cAsuses Ia 1889 sgsns,
60 In 1888 Atm other pont did mo wind csse ~ nnch
dsaskr 10 the shipping a. At ths above fnsrh vas \
msrkec tnc foroe OF the dsring 1880,
mag be from toe foowisg f.ct that Ia 1858 tbs
lumber ri caAuass returned napoeoei fnrinx times
IL hurficsne VS. ociy II, ~h'lst In 1859 n wss ST.
The number Of ships which suffered wreck or oseaAy
comnxnded by masters pssessng ,srsihsa;es Of compe
sexcy 2t1 against 3s4 commsniet BY msstsss hod
ing oeruacasea Of scrvi and b91 comasnded ~
teYs not required BY lag 70 have osrincs,es
1ns teaa loss of property BY vrecss aud cssacos der
INC tho year 1869 Wa nearly two miiisoos ststhas