Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-06-09
Missing ships.
LIST OF THE " NEVER HEARD OF.

LIST OF THE y NEVER HEARD OF.
The mysterious disappearance in the Atlantic
Of the steamer city Of Boston, with large NUM-
Der of passengers on board recalls TO mind
many similar cases in the annals of ocean nav-
CATION. Two occurred in the eighteenth century
which attracted general attention. Tile first of
these was the disappearance, in 17G9, of the
British frigate .iurOia bound for India, which
after touching at the Cape Of Good Hope was
never again heard of. The poet Falconer, author
of 1.-The Shipwreck,n was on board of her AS
purser. The other instance was that of La Pc
rouse, the French navigator, who. after a long
cruise of discovery in the Pacific Ocean with the
frgates As'r0fabe and Boassoie left Botany Bay
early in l7sS and was never heard of again /;
though, in 1928, traces of wrecks were found on
the New Hebrides, which are now thought to
have been those of the missing squadron The
disappearance of the PresidLW in 1871 caused
ers were novelties in those days, for only a few
years had elapsed since wcll-known philoso-
pher had pronounced it impossible to cross the
Atlantic by the aid of steam alone. Tie Pysi-
teht left New York early in January, aud was de-
SPARED OF in April Tremendous weather had
prevailed during the interval, and unusual guam
titles of ice had been seen III low latitildes
Among her passengers We're Lord Fitzroy Lennox
son OF Duke OF Richmond, and Tyrone Power
the celebrated Irish actor III 1854 the screw pro-
pelier GWy IF Glasgow left Liverpool for Phila-
delphia, ON the first of March, with four hundred
and eighty persons on board in all. She has never
riiice Deel heafu o. ana no fragments which
conld be identified have been discovered. In
1886 the Collins steamer Tdrifc left Liverpool
on the 23rd of January with one hundred and
| eishty-six persons on board among them Messrs.
Eliot Warburton. and Catherwooi, the artist
Nothing has since been heard of her, and she is
supposed to have struck on an iceberg. In 1862
the steamer Litignmd, which left Newcastle on
the 10Th of December. disappeared, and is snip
posed to have foundered OF marlborough Head
These arc the only eases within our knowledge
where large steamship has disappeared totally
without leaving behind trace of her existence ;
but az an example of the manner in which
such terrible calamities may occur, we may cite
the case of the Ltort, n Russian vesscl-of-war of
eighty-fonr guns, which, in the year, 1857 keeled
over and went down bodily in the Gulf of Cron-
stadt within sight of three of her consorts. The
whole ships company amounting to eight hun
dred and thirty-siS persons, We're drowned. No
human tongue survived TO tell how the Hingdi-
mn, Canadian steamer, was wrecked She was
discovered in 1859, on the rocks near Cape Sa-
Bile, Nova Scotia, and though two hundred per-
sons had been on board, only three bodies were
found, while the ma-bags We're reduced to pulp
| The Prnssian corvette Amd.on may doubtless be
enrolled in the list of missing ships. In 1861.
| she disappeared from the ocean, and some arm
racks. containing swords and guns, and marked
"F W." tFrederick William,) found on tho
sands OF the fIelder, are the only proofs of her
neutrality-suspicious. Joulm0L