The New York herald., 1863-06-18
the NORWEGIAN WRECKED.
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SHE GOES ASHORE AT ST. PAUL s ISLAND
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The Passengers, Grow, Mails and
Baggage All Saved.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VESSEL.
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Steamships Lost ON the Atlantic
and Its Coast,
&C., &e.. &c.
the NORWEGIAN WRECKED.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VESSEL.
Asrr BAY, Cape Breton, June IA, 1883.

Aspr Bar, Cape Breton, June IA, 1853.
The steamship Norwegian, OF the Canadian Steamship
line which loft Liverpool at hapast twelve O'Clock
noon Of the 4th Londonderry the 5th instant for
Quebec, was wrecked St. Paus Island this tsunday)
morning 14th instant, during thick fog
All her passengers and crew, together with her malls
and baggage, were saw
Tho newspsper dispatches were saved by Pursx
Wallace.
Despatch to tho Agents In Montreal.
MONTREAL, juno IT, 1SoS
The following despatch hes been received by The agents
OF the steamer Norwegian,- ~
Asrr Bar, @. B., June II, 1898.
ALLAN RAE & Co., Quebec
The Norwegian was wrecked this morning, at sewn
O'Clock in thick fog st. Pauls Island, milo snas
quarter east Of the Northeast Light.
sne had on board Atty yeight cabin and two hundred
and seventy seerage passengersal, togchsr wasA
the crew and mails saved largo portion Of tho bag
gage has also been landed aaa
The steamer when left at o'clock, was all but On
her beam epds we'll on the rocks. Her fcrepsak aaa
forward compartment have several feet Of wseer =
them, The main and after ones arc quite dry.
Captain McMaster not certain whether she could
be got or Hs requests that steamer be sent down M
mediately 70 the wreck
The passengers have been conveyed 70 the
Humane Socisty's houss.
Mr. Campbell Governor Of tho Island, q lending ~ his
assistance. JOHN WALLACE, Purssr.
Description OF tho Steamship Norwegian.
was iron propslsr, belonging 70 the Montreal
Steamship Company Of two thousand nvs hundred toas
burthen. She was built BY Msssrs Dnnis Bsotners y
Dumbarton the Clyde In che year 1850, and wAs o.
scquenty only three years old The Norwegian wae
three hundred and twelve feet In length, thirty
feet breadth and feet In depth Of hold
She registered Al o. uoyds and a. belonging v
the port OF Montreal, Canada She had three deetD,
seven tight bulkneads and rigged bark,
and drew twenty Of she furnished with
two direct engines the cylinder Of each being sixty sshs
inches diameter with forty i've inch stroke Of piston
The security against nre was good. Tho NorwegiAn
was commanded by Captain McMasters
Like the steamship Angosaxon belonging TO the same
company which lost April last the Norwegian
alternately with six One consort their service
from Liverpool and Londonderry Portland, Maine, and
Quebec the ships making harbor at Portland during the
winter and Montreal after touching Quebec, In
the summer months These sailed very regular
iy from Londonderry Ireland, after taking in mails and
passengers the day next after that which they took
their departure Liverpool Each vessel Of the line
carried the Canadian and United States mails and I'll hAA
the reputation Of being ably commanded and well found
aud disciplined. Messrs Sabol seare Of No % Broad
| way are the agents for the line In New York
| The Norwegian makes the seventh vessel which ~
Montreal Steamship Company have lost since the ysax
| 1857.