The New York herald., 1869-02-25
ENGLAND.
Serious Collision and Iosu Of Life or Pen-
zHnre.

!. Serious Collision and Ioss Of Life or PEN
znnce.
The English papers Of the 10Th inst contain tales
Of terrible collision ami loss or life at sea- from one
of which we take the following account OF the dis
aster:-
! The Western Morning Nesrs reports terrible
disaster at sea, involving the loss OF Prussian ship
and also OF an English sip, lad en- with telegraph
cable and, y - feared, OF considerable number OF
lives 0n Monday evening, the sth inst, eight men,
belonging 10 the ship Calcutta, x'hich vessel was
Inneh with telegraph cable and botnd from London
10 the Persian Gulf arrived At PEN zance. They re-
port thai late on saturday night, dg ring gale the
prussian bark Emma, OF Meme bon nd from car,I,tr
o Barcelona. The force OF the col lision was very
. Age, fonndering immediately. seven hands roing
q, swn with her. -Four other men, part OF her
the Calcutta. That vessel received such serious
dsmages IN the collision that despite every effort the
water continued to gam ON the crew. The eight
Wen who landed at Penzance late Ms)noay night
eff the Calcutta on Monday afternooil 1t three
'cock, fifteen miles south OF the Lizard. Fifteen
rsons. under The charge OF the third matte. had left
pr evously. Forty y-fhree others were still on board,
pa tprcparing Immediately to leave In the six boats
WI cn then remained. Captain Owen IN tended 10
mia ndon the ship possible, as he with the
resi- Of the crew, plainly that any furt EFFORTS
10 q ave the ship would be useless and ina at any
mon tent she might 90 down. She had tbeti twenty
six k set Of water IN her fore compartment an eleven
feet water % IN a The @ AFTER compartment AS there
ciaiiy s heavy gale and nigh sea preya,Ie.l. fhe
Robnst m, Thomas AIbIow, Charles Kemp, James
Warfort' !, Charles simpson, John Coleman ana VIII
iiarl wi ams.
On Tu. sday, at the dusk Of evening the Calcutta
was twcfl ,fy miles south OF Falmouth and had been
abandons, d by AL on board Two tugs have gone to
her assist anee from Falmouth, aud her Majesty's
shps TERI tbe and scotia LEFT Plymouth FOR tie same
purpose al ak O'Clock. The Western Commercial
traveller ifeboat, stationed at Cadawith brought
into FalIno attn fourteen OF the this afternoon
and sreeh vessel has entered the same port with
eight more picked up from boats. Another boat
containing "a le captain, mate aud eight OF the crew.
cspsized in u heavy sea. drowning all on board.
yThe captain leaves a widow and Two children.
Euriher par tlculars have been gathered regarding
the toss OF the Calcutta. IL appears that when She
was going dotTn on Monday afternoon the captain
deter1ulned 10 abandon her. -Four boats were got
mi b,, the captains gig swamped IN launching and
len OF the thirteen persons In her were drowned,
Incudi W the captain. mate, mfdshtp man. cook and
steward. Those in three boau are tnown 70 be
saved sut the niebost which len wlss seventeen
in ner blN b,ieu picked mp empty at MILLION, near
The Jizar,f Whether her crew has bcen saved by
pome vssss, or drowned ID ct present unknown.
Another verssI Ls~s on The EasIssnd Coast.
The promonf,vy Of Langness, SITUATE between
Douglas ana Cast stown the coast Of the Isle Of
Man has once NOR. been the agency Of sElpureck
destruction OF valuible property and iosg 0f Iife
The catastrophe took 9acc on Friday night Fcbruafy
s. when the French bark Virginia struck on Lang
ness and went 10 pieces. She had crew conGeung
OF the master and niue hands, two Of whom only
have been saved, and oneN of these two Is not ex-
pcctod to recover. When tle vessel sfrnck the mss
Ter and crew endeayorcd 10 veach the shore but ~
fwo betBH tatown ~ The waye3 pp INC rocks, where