Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-10
The wrecks of the Past.

An idea of the comparative magni-
tude of the late marine disaster, may be
obtained from the following statement
of the prominent marine accidents since
1910.
In the month of March. 1S41. the
steamer President sailed from Nav York
with a large number of passengers /:
when two days out she is supposed to
have encountered terrible gale, and was
never again heard from On the 2Sth
of April. 1S47, the Exmouth, an emil
grant 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 Margate, on which
occasion 400 lives were lost. In Sep
tember, 1850, the Edmond was lost on
the western coast of Ireland, and more
than half of the 200 passengers persisted.
Upon the occasion of the loss Of the
troop-ship Birkenhead in Simon's Bay,
South Africa, in February, 1852, 454 of
the crew and soldiers perished. Again,
in 1853, just a year after this, the indie
pendence took fire on the coast of Lower
California. and 140 persons were con-
sumed 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 afterword 348 persons, mainly
emigrant passengers, on the Annie Jane,
of Liverpool, perished on the west shore
of Scotland. winery the vessel was beach
ed The Favorite, on her way from
Bremen to Baltimore, in April, 1854,
ran into the bark Hesper, and POI lives
were sacrificed. In May of the same
year 400 officers and soldiers were lost
with the Lady Nugent, a troop ship,
which foundered in a hurricane, and in
the succeeding fall the United States
mail steamer Arctic came in contact
during fog with the French steamer
Nesta, and a loss of 300 lives was the
result, an accident which still rings in
the memory of many. The steamer
City of Glasgow disappeared also be-
fore the close of this disastrous year with
4S0 persons on board. In 1856 the only
serious marine accident WIS the loss of
the George Calming near the mouth of
the Elba with SO passengers on board.
In 1855, the John, an emigTant vessel,
was wrecked on the Munich Rocks off
Falmouth, on which occasion 200 lives
were lost. On the 23d of February of
the succeeding year the well-known
Collins steamer Pacific left Liverpool
for New York freighted with 1856 souls,
and was never again heard of. During
the summer of 1867 the clipper ship
Dunbar was wrecked near Sydney, and
out of 121 persons on board only one
was saved. In September of the same
year the steamer Central America
4 fOunderpd at sea with 579 passengers
only 152 were rescued. On the 18th of
September, 1853, the steam emigrant
ship Austria, was burned in mid Allan
tic, and of the 53S passengers but 81
were saved. In September of the same
! year 81 Chinese emigrants lost their
| lives in consequence of the wreck OF
/ the st. Paul on the island of ROssel.
| Of the 4l9 persons on the Pomona,
which was lost on Blackwater Bank,
April 2S, 1859, only "a were saved. Du-
ring the same year the Royal Charter
was wrecked off Moelfra, with loss OF
446 lives. On the night of February 2,
| 1850, new mail steamer, the Hungari-
an, was wrecked off the coast of Nova
! Scotia, and all on board, 205 perished.
| Ten years agothis month 237 out of 446,
persons, passengers on the Anglo-SaxOn,
! lost their lives when that steamer was
/ wrecked off Newfoundland. In Janua-
ry of 1866 the steamer London founder
1 ed in the Bay of Biscay, sacrificing
| about 220 lives Among the more re-
/ cent losses at sea that of the City of
/ Boston, around which still hovers an
unfathomed mystery, and that Of the
! Northfeet, are still within the recollec-
tion of the youngest.