The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-05

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i NOTABLE MAR1NE DISASTERS tho
month Of March. 1s4l, the steamer Pre-
'sident sailed from New York with q
days out. she.is supposed to- have sens
eountered terrible gale, and'w was nsver
&61in heard from. On the 28th of April,
18AH the Exmouth,, an emigrant ship
from Londonderry, Twas wrecked; and
nearly 240 lives lost. A still more disas.
trous, wreck was that of the Royal Ade-
lside, which occurred on the Tongue
Sands, off Margate, on which oca>>ton
400 lives were lost. We think it was -
1887 that the Grosvenor Indiaman was
lost. while on the way to Australia, from
London; the passengers consisted OF
600 conviots, nearly all of whom were
lost. In September, 1850, the Edmond
was lost on the Western coast Of Ireland,
and more than half OF the 200 passen.
gers perished. Upon the occasion OF the
loss OF ahe oop-ship Birkenhead, in
Simon's Bay. Sonth Africa, in February,
1852, 45l Of the Grew and soldiers Pc
rished. Again, in 1853, just year after
this, the Independence took IRE on tho
coast Of Lower Calitornis, end, 140 per-
sons were consumed by the flames or
drowned in the sea. In May Of the
same year, ITO lives were lost by the
wreck Of the William and Mary, near the
Bahamas; and five months afterward,
34S persons, mainly emigrant passengers,
on the Annie Jane, of Liverpool. Pc
rished on the West shore OF Scotland,
where the vessel was besched. The Fs i.
vofite, on her way from Bremen to Bal
timore, in April, 1854, ran into the bark
Hesper, and 20l lives were sacrificed. In
May Of the same year. 400 officers aud
soldiers wore lost with the Lady Nagens,
. troop-ship, which foundered in hur-
ricane; and in the succeeding fall, the
United States mail steamer Arctic came
in contact, during fog, with the French
steamer Vesta, and q loss OF 800 lives
the result. The steamer City of Glasgow
disappeared also before the close Of this
disastrous year, with $50 persons on
board. In 1855. the only serious marine
accident was the loss of the George Cnn-
ming, near tho mouth of the Elbe, with
96 passengers on board. In 1855, the
John, an emigrant vessel was wrecked
on the Munich Rocks. OF Falmouth, on
which Occasion 200 lives were lost. On
the 231 Of February of the succeeding
year, the well. known Collins steamer
Pacific left Liverpool for the city
OF New York, freighted with 166
souls, and was never again heard of.
During the summer of 1857 the clipper
ship Dunbar was wrecked near Sydney,
and out Of l2l persons on board only
one was saved. Iu September Of the
same year the steamer Central America
foundered ut sea with $40 passengers
only 152 were rescued. On the 18th oI
September, 1858, the steam emigran,
ship Austria was burned in mid Atlantic,
and of the 53S passengers but 67 were
saved. In September of the same year
BIT Chinese emigrants lost their lives in
| consequence Of the wreck OF the st.
Paul on the island OF Rossrl, OF the
419, persons on the Pomona, which.wa.
lost on Blackwater Bank, April %, 1859,
only 24 were saved. During the same
year the Royal Charter was wrecked Of
| Moelfra, with loss Of 446 lives. On
tho night of February 3. 1860, new
mail steamer, the Hungarian, WAS wreck
ed of the coast of Nova Scotia, and al
on board, 2O5, perished. Ten years sgc
this month 237 out of 446 persons, pas
sengers on the Anglo Saxon, lost theil
lives when that steamer was wrecked of
Newfoundland. In January of 1866 the
steamer London foundered in the Bay oi
Biscay, sacrificing about 220 lives
Among the more recent losses at sea tha,
OF the City Of Boston and that of ths
Northaeet, the Evening Star, the Cen
trial America, aud the San Francisco
may be added to tho list
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