Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-04-10
Notable Marine Disasters.

In the month of March, 1941, the
steamer President sailed from New
York with large number of passeng-
ers when two day out she is supposed
to have encountered terrible gale,
and was never again heard from. On
the 2Sth of April, 1847, the Exmouth,
an emigrant ship from Londonderry,
was wrecked, and nearly 240 lives lost.
A still more disastrous wreck was that
of the Royal Adelaide, which occurred
on the Tongue Sands, off Margatc, on
which occasion 200 lives were lost. In
September, 1850, the Edmond was
lost on the western coast of Ireland,
and more than half of the two hundred
passengers persisted. Upon the occa-
sion of the troop ship Birkenhead. in
Simous bay, South Africa, in February
1852, 454 of the crew and soldiers per-
ished. Again, in 1858, just year
after this, the Independents took fire on
the coast of Lower California, and 149
persons were consumed by the flames
or drowned in the sea. In May Of the
same year 40 lives were lost by the
wreck Of the William and Mary near
the Bahamas; and five months after
ward 34S persons, mainly emigrant
passengers, on the Annie Jane, of Liv
erpool, persisted on the west shore OF
Scotland, where the vessel was beached.
The Favorite, on her way from Bre
men to Baltimore, in April, 1854, rah
into the lark Hesper, and POI lives
were sacrificed. In May of the same
year 400 officers and soldiers were
lost with the Lady Nugcnt, a troop
ship, which foundered in hurricane,
and in the succeeding fall THE U. S.
mail steamer Attic came in contact du-
ring q fog with the French steamer
Vesta, and loss of 800 lives was the
result. The steamer City of Glasgow
disappeared also before the close of
this disastrous year with 480 persons
on board. IN 1855 the only serious
marine accident was the loss of the
George Canning near the mouth of the
Elbe with ninety six passengers on
board. In 1855 the John, an emigrant
vessel, was wrecked on the MUNICH
Rocks off Falmouth, on which occa-
sion 200 lives were lost. On the 23d
of February of the succeeding year
the well-know Collins steamer Pacific
left Liverpool for New York, freighted
with 1876 souls. and was never again
heard Of
During the summer of 1857 the clip
per ship Dunbar YVES wrecked near.
Sidney, and out of 1872 persons on
board only one was saved. In Sep
TENDER of the same year the Steamer
Central America foundered at sea with
$40 passengers only 152 were res
cued. On the 18th of September, 1855
the steam emigrart ship Austria was
burned in mid Atlantic; of the 53s
passengers but 81 were saved. In Sep
TENDER of the same year 317 Chinese
emigrants lost their lives in conse-
quence of the wreck of the St. Paul on
the island Of Rossel. OF the 4l9 per
sons on the Pomona, which was lost
Oh Blackwater Bank, April % 1859,
only "a were saved. During the SAINT
year the Royal Charter was wrecked
off Moelfra, with loss of 466 lives.
On the night of February 2, 1850, 8
new mail steamer, the Hungarian, *a'
wrecked off the coast Of Nova Scotia
and all on board, POS, petished. Ter
years ago this month 257 out of 44s
persons, passengers OF the Ahglo-sax
was wrecked off Newfoundland. II
January of 1860 the steamer Londor
foundered in the Bay Of Blscay, sac
raticing about 320 lives.
Among the more recent losses at ses
that of the City of Boston, and that o.
the Northfeet, the Evening Star, the
! Central America, and the San Francisco
may be added to the list.