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

! NOTABLE MAR1nE DISASTERS. In the
month Of March, 1841, the steamer Pre-
Fsident sailed from New York With
large pumber offpHssepgers; when two
days out, che .is supposed to- have ep,
countered terrible gale, andswas never
{gain heard from. On the 28th Of April,
18Ah the Exmouth,. an emigrant ship
from Londonderry, i!was wreokeds and
nearly 240 lives lost. A still more disas.
trous wreck was that Of the Royal Ade-
laide, which occurred on tho Tongue
Sands, off Margate, on which ooe>>Sion
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 we're
lost. In September, 1850, the Edmond
was Lost on the Western coast of Ireland,
and more than half OF the 200 passen.
gers psrished. Upon the occasion OF the
loss OF the troop-ship Birkenhead, in
Simon's Bay. South Africa, in February,
1852, 45t OF the crew and soldiers pc
Eiahsd. Again, in 1853. jnst year after
this, the Independence took fre on the
coast Of Lower California and, 14O 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 Ave months afterward,
34S persons, mainly emigrant passengers,
on the Annie Jane, of Liverpool. pe-
rished on the West shore Of Scotland.
where the vessel WIS beached. The Fa
vofite, on her way from Bremen to Bal
timore. in April, 1854, ran into the bark
Hesper, and 2Ol lives we're sacrificed. In
May OF the same year. 400 officers and
soldiers wore lost with the Lady Nugent,
= troop-ship, which foundered in hur-
ricane; and in the sucoeeding fall, the
United States mail steamer Arctic came
in contact, during fog, with the French
| steamer Vesta, and loss Of 800 lives
the result. The steamer City of Glasgow
disappeared also before the close Of this
disastrous year, with 4s0 persons on
board. In 1855. the only serious marine
ming, near the month of the Elbe, with
John, an emigrant vessel. was wrecked
which occusion 200 lives were lost. On
the 23l of February of the succeeding
year, the we'll. kuown Collins steamer
Pacific lett Liverpool for the city
OF New York. freighted with 1s6
souls, and was never again heard of.
During the summer of 1857 the clipper
ship Dunbar was wrecked near Sydney,
and out OF 12l persons on board only
one was saved. In September OF the
same year tho steamer Central America
foundered ut sea with 579 passengers
| only 1872 were rescued. On the 18th oI
September. 1858, the stcam emigrani
ship Austria was burned in mid Atlantic,
and of the 538 passengers but CT were
saved. In September OF the same yeai
BIT Chinese emigrants lost their lives il
consequence Of the wreck OF the st.
Paul on the island of Rossel. !, Of thu
419 persons on the Pomona, which Lwal
lost on Biackwnter Bank, April 20, 1859
only 24 we're saved. During the sam.
year the Royal Charter was wrecked of
Moelfra, with loss of 446 lives. On
the night of February 2. 1860, new
mail steamer, the Hungarian, was wreck
ed of the const of Nova Scotia, and al
on board, 2O5, perished. Ten years age
this month 237 out of 446 persons, pas
sengers on the Anglo Saxon, lost their
lives when that steamer was wrecked of
Newfoundland. In January of 1866 thu
steamer London foundered in the Bay O.
Biscay, sacrificing about 220 lives
Among the moro recent losses at sea tha
OF tho City of Boston and that of th,
NorthAeet, the Evening Star, the Cen
trail America, and the San Francisco
may be added to the list.
The NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD.