New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-07
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
rxpFPrrycE OF VESSELS AT SEA.


TIE VICTORIA AGROUND IN THE UPPER BAY
RESCUED FROM AN OYSTER SCHOONER.
The Anchor Line steamship Victoria ended o voy-
age of twenty-three days from London yesterday py
going ashore on Oyster Island IN the upper pay
abont noon She was oated of high tide last night
and came up TO the city. The passengers, VINO were
landed at Pier No. 20, North River YESTERDAY alteI
noon, described the first half OF the voyage as pe
ing unusually severe, from the time of leaving Lon
don until midway across the ocean on DeceinoeI oo'
when the weather moderated She sailed from Lon
don on December Ia and at once enGou'ervu
rife weather. On some days she made no apparents
Roadway. Christmas Day was the most severe ol
any during the voyage The seas came over Tue po
in almost unbroken volumes Life lines Were
stretched about the decks for the officers ana sailors
10 cling to, and the officers were almost c9htu
uousy on duty sea aiter sea oroke oN , ue
20 tear the vessel TO pieces Three OF the ooats were
torn from their davits and completely DESTROYED.
On the night of December ~, when the vessel was
being bufteted by the great seas, the iowpressig
cylinder of the MAN engine was broken ne Nesse
was Immediately put under sail ana hoye-to, heau
10 the sea The engineers force worked Two DAYS
and a night before the low-pressure engine was dIs
connected, and then the vessel was worked mo
rort under high-pressure assisted oy ihe saw
made comparatively fair Roadway re3chlhg IN! !ill5
port yesterday morning. The vessel unuer limited
stearn-powe was difficult TO control after sail was
taken of. After leaving Quarantine YESTERDAY
noOn the bay was crowded with vessels apu "
avoid collision the vessels course was changed.
Before her course could be again changed, or her
headway checked lit being impossible to reverse the
engines with the high-presSure cylinder onlyl she
went ashore. 1t is not thought that the vessel Is
damaged
The bark Atlas. which arrived from Liverpool
yesterday. rescued from the schooner L. T. AyIes on
January . $50 miles east of Cape May, Captain
Ayres, the owner aud two sailors. The AyTes was
an oyster schooner bound from Baltimore TOT NOT
folk Va. and, being caught III succession OF west
ery gales was blown out TO sea. Inc experience Oh
these three men was very severe. and II required all
OF their strength 10 keep them rom being
washed overheard. Sail after sail was blown from
the fastenings and torn into ribbons, and the Spars
were carried away Soon the vessel was entirely at
the mercy of the waves which buiieted II about Tor
two days before relief came. When the Atlas was
sighted no alternative was left for the slpwreckcd
men but 10 abandon their vessel
The steamship CasSius which arrived from liam
burg Yesterday, with 416 immigrant passengers
completed an eventful voyage. She sailed IRON
Hamburg on November %, and when lew DAYS at
sea i'm the midst of the November hurricanes her
machinery became disabled and the vessel put INTO
Falmouth England on December 10, Tor repairs
She sailed again four days afterward, and was
twenty-three days at sea before she arrived here
thirtecn days longer than she should have been.
She encountered adverse gales and high seas DUNG
nearly the entire voyage, and on some days made
no Roadway. The vessel pitched and rolled, bury
ing herself under the mighty waves winch swept
her entire length with great force, and at times II
seemed that she must succumb to the clements
The vessel arrived with only slight damage, and
p,oYV nt I nc osSeuperS were slightly bruised.