The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-29
DISASTERS TO AMERICAN SHIPPING.


re reported:-
The steamer Worcester from Baltimore, |
eached Liverpool IN a very crippled state. She
encountered fearful weather in the channel; had
fr foremast carried away, and was otherwise
!. smaged. go. .I.. .t.
The steamer Palestine, which returned to
queenstown, would go to Liverpool for coal and
pairs. 1t was expected she would be able TO
esume her voyage in few days. The chiet
Engineer of the Palestine was, it Is reported,
Fashed overheard at sea-
Owing to the storm teegraphing between
liverpool and London was entirely suspended.
The commercial and financial news from London
only to Thursday night.
+. The American ship Tigress, from New York,
( vas abandoned on the 23d OF December; crew
+, Haved.
The ]. p. Wheeler, from New York for Glasgow,
which ran ashore at Oban, has become q total
.grecB.
The Brenda, from Boston, has put into Busta
Mol, Lerwick, with loss of sails, mainmast, etc.
The Cecrops, from New YerkSor Belfast, put
Into Queenstown on the 9Th; lost miZZenmast
hree topmasts and all attached.
The Aba Ardrossau, for New York, put into
4 queenstown Sth lost foretopmast, and all at
lached.
The Fortuna, London for New York. put into
Falmouth 7th, through stress of weather.
The british Queen Liverpool for Philadel-
.-phla, tOwed into Stromness, Scotland, 4th: lost
(. bearly all sails, several yards rigging and bull
Warks damaged, and steering with tackles.
=. The Live Oak, from Liverpool for New York,
WAS at HOLY head, towed in from New Harbor, to
n
teenth-foot mark. ..- ..
The James Foster Jr., for New York, dragged
...her anchors at Liuerpool on the Sth, and went
ashore in Bootle Bay, but, got oil again same
D1ay, and was placed in dock,
The captain of the Guy Mannering, lost at
0ban, was saved along with seventeen of the
crew. The remainder, eighteen in number, were
r. drowned.
The Resoute from Mobile for Liverpool, put
into Sound of Islay on the 4th, leaky' Lost
= mizzenmast etc.
ifu nf
Tobacco and cheese was all that was saved from
the cargo of the ship Meridian, ashore near Va
a. lencia.
~ The report of the ship George Chaplin putting
into Queenstown leaky is incorrect. The vessels
name was the General Shipley.
The Il H. Taylor, from Liverpool for New
York, put back on the 9th instant making water
and rudder damaged.
n The ship Mountaineer sailed from Mobile for
i Liverpool on the 9th of August last and has
Fl not since been heard OF.
The ship Dashing Wave, from Philadelphia at
Antwerp, had been ashore in the Schelde.
N The Triton, from New York, while docking at
ri Liverpool, took the ground, but was ultimately
4 towed off and placed in doch without damage
The Marianne Nottebohn, from New York for
4 Liverpool, via Queenstown, put into Holyhead
on the 9th instant.
Very little cargo had washed ashore from the
wreck of the ship Albion, from Liverpool for
New York, which went ashore near Stromness.
" Most of the cotton, If not all, will probably
+ be saved from the wreck of the Guy Mannering,
The ship Harriet, for New York, and the Lord
Dufierin, for Savannah, both put back to Liver
pool on the 9th inst.
The Maud, for New York, also put back to Liv-
erpoo ON the 9Th.
The ship Energy, which ran ashore near
Sicily previous to the 20th December, has been
& got off and towed into Malta, with only slight
damage.
Twenty casks of tobacco have been saved from
the wreck OF the Norma, from Richmond, ashore
j on Goodwin Sands.
w StOrpr
pool, which put into Rothesay, left that port on
the 9th inst. for Liverpool
Ship Deirress, Childs, for New York, put into
x Great Yarmouth on the 10th.
Ship Jane Ross, from London for New York,
sixty days out, put into Penarta Roads, foremast
sprung and otherwise damaged; would go into
Il dock at Cardiff
Ship Joseph Holmes from Liverpool for New
{ Orleans, was put into Holyhead.
Brig Neptune, ashore near Blyth, had been
condemned, and will be sold; cargo landed.
Ship Paramount, from Galveston, ashore off
Islay, Is sound.
The Persia, for Wilmington, and Volant, for
Il New Orleans, put back TO Liverpool the llth
The James Guthrie, from Calcutta for Boston,
81 grounded off Magapore on the 10Th of December,
x but got off, and proceeded.
The Lone Star, from Natal for the Clyde, put
into Sundas Bay on the 14th of December; lost
4 her toretopmast, jibboom, etc.
The Loss of the Sony yMannertBg''-AT Ter
rIble Scene-Names of the Saved.
Iona Correspondence Glasgow Daily Mail
II Inc SpleuuIu anu W6l~kuOWn sup Ouy hdIl-
q nering, of New York, owned by Mr.. e. N. Tay-
lor, which sailed from New York on the I'd of
December, with cargo of cotton and grain, for
Liverpool, became a total wreck here about
4 three o'clock p. NJ. on the 3lst ultimo. She was
commanded by Captain Charles Brown, and was
r 1911 tons register. There were thirty-slX souls
on board, nineteen of whom were saYed, and
seventeen were lost. After leaving New York.
they had very favorable passage the first week,
after which, and 10 this happening, they had fear
full storms all the rest of the passage; their first
U set of sails were blown off to ribbons, and the
remaining canvas in like manner; the cargo
! twice shifted, and the crew got disabled by day
and nights incessant labor. The passengers
were then made to work the vessel. and during
p the last week, from having no sails, they were
tossed to and fro and gradually dTifted to the lee
shore The night before the Guy Mannering ran
ashore, she spoke the ship j. p. Wheeler, of New
4 York, off Skerryvore Lighthouse, which came to,
to give assistance and to take of the hands and pas
sengers but found it too late as it came on dark
and by the morning the GuyMannering had d1fted
out of sight, close to the shore, the west side OF
Iona. In halt an hour she parted amidships
then seen to throw himself into the sea, and to
make for the shore. He afterwards proved to be
the first mate, who swan ashore over the huge
breakers He was followed by seven or eight
others, but being OVerpowered, except the car
penter, they made for the cotton bales which
now drilted ashore, but none OF these poor fell
lows managed IT, and they gradually disap-
peared among the debris of cotton, timber, sails
etc. There was then observed piece
drifting IN with three ON it; the people
collected on shore then went out, shoul.
der 10 shoulder, at great risk, and
carried them ashore; and then another piece
followed with seven on it, who were rescued. A
few more came on bales. The captain struck
out for the shore, turned back when half way,
and nobly held on to some piece till about 8
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