New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-21

| BOrkum and quickly sank.
| boat which has arrived at Cuxhaven has
landed thirty.nine persons Six steamers have
been sent out to search for the other boats of the
Cimbria. The Cimbra was to have left Havre to-
day for New-York.
| The officers of the Cimbria are as follows:
| - HANSEN. Commander
! i. KARLOwA. Chief Officer.
! +. SPRUTH, Second Ottlcer
| A. HEYDoRN Third Officer.
| a. VOss Fourth Officer.
| +. ALPEN Chief Engineer.
| 1 hoOpman, Second Engineer.
| j. DELMANN, Third Engineer
| {. WIRDEMANN, Fourth Hngmeer.
| Dr. &. MULLER, Physician.
| j. BERSIrT. Purser
| j. BIOCKMULLER, Chief Steward.
| Borkun, of which the Cimbria sank, is an
island IN this North Sea belonging TO Prus-
sia. at the mouth of the Ems, twenty-six
miles northwest Of Emden. The island is
low and divided into two parts by n narrow chan
mel. 1t is SIX miles long, two miles broad and has
| 573 inhabitants. The latitude of the lighthouse is
53o 80 y; the longitude 80 IL Z. Cuxhaven is a
seaport OF Germany on the west bank of the Eibe,
| at ITS mouth.
| DISPATCHES RECEIVED IN THIS CITY.
Kunhardt & Co., agents Of the Hamburg Amer-
can Steam Packet Company, received yesterday
| "a
| ing them that the steamer Sultan, which arrived
at Hamburg last night had been in collision in the
German Ocean. off Borkum. in dense fog, with an
unknown steamer supposed to bo the Cimbria
| which sailed from Hamburg on the 18th for Havre
| and New-York.
Last evening the Messrs. Kunhardt received a
| second dispatch conveying the following intelli-
| gence:
| HAsBURG, Jan. 20.-The Cimbria was sunk Fri
| day morning twelve mites southwest of Borkum. by
the British steamer sultan. she sunk fifteen minutes
after the collision IhTty-nine persons landed at
CuIhaven this evening Other boats still out.
| Our steamer. Bavaria and Hansa and several tugs
| start imVlcdiAtely for search OF other boats.
The Cimbria was a screw steamer. 1896 feet in
length. 4O.2 feet in breadth of beam aud having q
| depth Of hold Of 80 feet. She was Of 1894 tons
gross and .09i tons net burden. Tho steamer wac
| built in 1867 at Grcenock. Scotland she was of
| iron, had six bulkheads and .wO vertical direct
| acting engines. with four boilers.
The Clmbua was last IN tins port at Christmas
| time. sailing 20 Europe sCOn after The last
previous disaster with winch the HAMBURG Ameri-
| can Line has met WAS the loss Of the Herder Ia
August Last.
WHAT THE sUPERINrENDENr OF THE LINE SAYS.
| At the Hamburg American Packet Company's Of
fee in this city the INST of the disaster
received about 1870 p. IL. by q dispatch from Ham
burg which stated that the English steamer Sultan
had arrived 10 Hamburg aud reported having come
IN collision with and sunk an unknown steamer in
a dense fog OH Borknm. later dispatch announced
that the unknown vessel had proved to be the Chm
bria that the sultan had picked up thirty-four of
the passengers and that boats had been sent To the
assistance OF the rest.
Captain BaOrnhauscn. the superintendent
reporter in Ilohoken last night. lie
corroborat"d the information regarding the first
telegram, and addedi =, Al present am uncertain
what vessel Vas sunk by the sultan. think 1t
must have been the timbra, az she had left Ham,
burg. aud We have no information Of her having
arrived at Hayre." Ii was then 10 O'Clock. Mr..
Meyer the manager OF the line. had meanwhile re-
ceiyed the cabegram announcing that the
steamer was the CImbra. Captain Baden
hansen said that the collision took place
about ten hours out from the mouth of the nver
Elneo There was rect called Borknm, h. sand.
and an island OF the same name. They were near
together bur of hch the collision occurred he
conll not tell. He could not say how many passen-
gers were on board the CmbTa. The steamer, he
said, Was IN iirst-class scagoing condition. New
engines were put IN two years ago. "Caplaln Han
sen" Mr.. Badenhauscn concluded, q" has been In
service since he was yOung man, and is regarded
rs one of our best officers. He IS about torty'hye
years Old"
TALK WITH ONE OF THE AGENTS.
j. f. Ii. Meyer, one of the American agents of the
Hamburg American Packet Company. was found at
hs house, in Garden-st.. Ioboaen, last night by a
kgIBUNE reporter, and in answer to inquiries re-
gardng the lost vessel said:
"The dictated Cimbra was first class steamship
and was well equipped In every respect. About two
years ago boilers and new engines were put in
She carried eight large life-boats, ca n Of which
could hold sixty seventy persons if they
had time to them properly. But |
fear that two three of the boats must have been
demolished snch collision, and In fifteen
minutes, at time of such great excitement, fear
that the remaining boats could not be used
10 the best advantage. The CImbria was
built In 1867 by Card Il Co.. OF Greenock- -on-the
Clyde, and made her first trip to this country in
1867. Her captains name was Hansen. He had
been in the cOmpany's employ for many years
in the West India trade, and had been
in command of the Cimbria for about
year and half. He was about forty years old
aud had family in Hamburg. The rest of the
officers and crew numbered about 10 men. The
lost vessel left Hamburg on Wednesday morning
and should have been in Havre on Friday.
She should have lett Havre to-day. The dispatch
saying that the collision took place Friday twelve
miles southwest of Borkum, shows that she must
have gone very slowly all the way from Hamburg
on account of the fog. Borkum must mean
Borkum Reef, which is twenty or thirty miles |
out in the German Ocean from the coast ut point |
on the line between Germany and Holland. BOr- |
kun Island, another locality with that name, is /
very the coast the accident could not have |
taken place twelve miles southwest OF il.
"At this time of year vessels leave Hamburg |
with about twenty-five or thirty cabin passengers |
and afraid that there at least 800 steerage
passengers on board. Borkum Reef, where the
cident probably occurred is twelve or fifteen hours
sail in good weather from Hamburg the vessels
that went out TO search for the missing
boats could not reach the place till
forty five fifty hours after the accident, as the
Sultan, which ran down the Cmbria and carried
the news to amburg. could not nave sailed rapidly
by in the dense fog, AMI relief vessels would have
TO encounter the same obstacle. Our lue
was lost, beside the Cimbria, the