The Shasta courier., 1870-05-28
Missing ships

The mysterious ulsappear,nce :, Al.
Atlantic Ocean of the steamer ~, - .1e
son' with large number Of passengers on
ooaro' recalls to mind many similar. cases
10 tue annals OF ocean navigation Tho
1rss ,nH OF .nese Was the disappearance. in
1879, Of the British trgate Aurora ho,nd
tor India, which, after toucbiuy =, ,ha
Cape Of Good Hope, Was never again besrJ
OF. The poet Falconer, author of .Th..
Snipwreck, was on board Of her as pur,eri
lhe other instance Was that of Perouse
the French navigator, who after a lony
cruise OF discovery in the Psci6c Oea.o
with the trlgates Astrolabe and Bonssole
lett Botany Bay early in 1855, and w.s
never heard OF again; though in lszs
traces Of wrecks were found on tho NJ
Hebrldes, which are now thought to have
been those OF the missing squadron. The
dlsap earance of the President, iu l84I
caused the most unparalleled excitemen,
ocean steamers We're novelties in those
days; Tor only few years had elapsed
since a well known philosopher had pro.
nounced IL Impossible to cross the Atlautic
oy the aid OF steam alone. The President
lett New York early in January, and was
despalred OF IN April. Tremendous wealth.
er had prevailed during the interval. and
unusual quantities Of Ice bad been seen In
the low latltudes. Among her passengers
were Lord LeDnox, son of the Duke of
Richmond, and Tyrone Power, the cele.
prated Irish actor. In 1854 the screw.
propeller City OF Glasgow, lett Liverpool
lor Philadelphia, ou the lst of March, with
four hundred and eighty persons OF board
In all. She has never since been heard ot
and no fragments which could be Identified
have been discovered la 1856 the Col.
llns steamer Pacific left Liverpool on the
zod OF the mouth of ia uary, with one
hundred and eghty-slx PERSONS on board.
among whom We're Messrs. Eliot Warnur.
Ton, aud Catherwood and artists Nothing
has since been heard Of her, and she II
SUPP osed to have struck ON an iceberg.
In 1867 the steamer Lifeguard, which left
Newcastle ON the 10th OF December, disap-
peared, and Is supposed to have foundered
OF marlborough Head These are the
only Eases within our knowledge where a
large steamship has disappeared totally
without leaving behind trace of her ex-
istance; but, as an example of the manner
In which such terrible calamities NAV
occur, We may cite the case OF the Letort.
a Kusslan vessel-of-war OF feightyfour guns,
which, In the year 1857, kelled over and
went down bodily in the gulf of Cronstradt,
within sight OF three Of her consorts. The
whole ships company, amounting to eight
hundred and thirtysix persons, were
drowned. No human tongue survived to
tell how the Hungarian, Il Canadian steam.
er, was wrecked. She was discovered. in
1899, on the rocks near Cape Sable.
Nova Ccotia, and, though two hundred
persons had been en- board, only three
bodies were found, while the mail bars
were reduced to pulp. The Prussian cor
vette a mazon may doubtless be enrolled in,
In the list of missing ships. In 1861 she
disappeared from the ocean, and some arm,
racks, containing swords and guns, marked
#. W." Frederick William) found on
the sands off the Helder, are the only
proofs OF her wreckage.