Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-10-14
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City Of Boston and the Cambria were
both lost the following year. The fate
OF the former is not known; the latter
was wrecked on the Ilish coast and 1875
persons lost their lives.
The year 1872, both in the number Of
vessels that sailed never to return and
the number of lives lost was the most
disastrous in the history of the trans
atlantic trade. No less than six large
passenger steamers were lost with all
on board. The fate Of the Scanderia,
the Commander, the Mary Church. the
Shannon. the Churrack and the Devon
will ever remain an unsolved mystery Of
the sea. The very next year one of the
most awful of marine catastrophes &C.
CURED. The Atlantic sailed from
Liverpool for New York with a large
passenger list. She encountered such
stormy weather that she ran short Of coal
and her captain was forced to shape his
course for Halifax to procure fresh
supply. One dark, stormy night, with
q heavy sea running. she struck on Mea-
gher's Head on the Nova Scotia coast,
and $40 of her crew and passengers met
a frightful death. The few that were
saved owed their deliverance to the al
most unexampled heroism of an Eng
lish quartermaster, who with o rope
tied around his body swan through the
boiling surf, climbed precipitous cliff
and directed the rescue Of the few sur
vivors- The same year that the Allan
tic was lost, 1878, the Ismalla sailed to
her destruction with all on board, and
the Vile du Havre sunk at sea with $50
souls.
The Anna and the Trojan have been
missing since 1874. The next year the
Schiller was wrecked on the Softly
islands and 200 lives were lost, and the
Deutschland foundered in the
North sea with 1877 persons. The Col
ombo and the Copia have been miss
ing" since 1875 and the Mexican, Durley
and Stamfordham since 1877. The same
year the Sandman was wrecked on the
coast of Ireland with great loss Of life.
In 1878 the Pommerania was wrecked
off Folkestone and over so were
drowned; the Herman Ludwig was lost
with all on board, and the Bayard foun-
dered at sea and only two of her PEG.
Pile were saved. The loss of the Anchor
line steamer Utopia, in the bay Of Gil
bralter little over a year ago, when
572 persons lost their lives, is fresh in
the minds of all. The above list, al
though by no means complete, and al
though it does not contain the name
of a single one of the scores of tramp
and cattle steamers that have been lost,
is appealing enough.
One of the saddest facts connected
with this sad record is the large num-
Der of vessels that are reported as
missing" Very few persons know
what a large number of vessels have
never been heard from after leaving
port. In Great Britain alone, in 1S73-74,
there were eighty vessels missing; in
1S74-75. 1877, and in 1856, 10l; between
1S64-6e, Of ,5ss reported lost, the fates
of SAG are unknown, and even this list
is said to be less than more accurate
information or more extended in
surance would show In 1877 the
losses of the British merchant marine
comprised $50 sailing vessels and rs
steamers representing a value with car
goes of $40, 900, 900 aud ., 200 lives, and in
1873 the total wrecks of all national
tiles were 4,259, or a number equal to
that employed in our entire sea service.
Appliances for saving life are, how
ever, becoming every year more eff
fective, no less than ,295 crews having
been saved in 1854 as compared with
1,O2S in the proceeding year. The num-
Der Of persons drowned by shipwreck
in 1880 was 1,725 and the average per
annum since 1866 was l,775, showing a
decrease of per cent.-Providenee
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