Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-05-25

when she capsized in squali of
Cape Finisterre, Sept. 20, 1870, GO
ing down within three minutes of
being keeled over and carrying with
her 472 of her crew.
The wreck of the Collins steam
ship Atlantic, which went ashore
on the Nova Scotia coast on stormy
night in April, 1873, was an awful
one. More than SEQ lives were lost
on that occasion. the passengers
and crew being either drowned in
the wreck or frozen in the rigging.
The Atlantic had been m unfortu-
nate vessel. She had broken her
shaft on previons voyage, aad az
ter being out from Liverpool for 80
days, had crawled back into Queens
town with her precious load of half
starved passengers and crew.
The Guion Line has long list of
losses, including the Colorado, Mon
tana, Dakota and Idaho. The Mon
tana was curiously constructed
craft with tumble-in-sides, was
broad on the water line but narrow
on deck, and she had not straight
line in her hull. On her first trip
to New York her engines had so
shaken her up and started the bolts
in her stern that she needed con-
siderable patching up before she
could return, and this repairing had.
to be repeated in Liverpool.
The City of New York, the first
steamship of that name and belong
ing to the Inman Line, was wrecked
near Roche's Point. The Central
America foundered off Cape Hat
teras in 1856. There was loss of
427 lives and 81, 900, 900 in treasure
in her going down, and Captain
Herndon of the United States Navy,
who commanded her, stnck to her
to the last, carrying out his decla-
ration that he would never leave
the ship.
The shock of this calamity had
hardly faded from the public mind
when, in 1858, news arrived of the
burning Of the steamship Austria,
on her passage from Hamburg to
New York, with loss of All lives,
only 67 out of total of 53S persons
passengers and crew--being saved.
The Schiller, of the North German
Line, was another of the unfortu-
mates. She WIS wrecked on the
Cilly rocks and 200 of her passengers
and crew were drowned.
Tabulating the ocean disasters of
a more remote date aud going back
as far as the 18th century the fol-
lowing were the more direful in
their consequences
Victoria, British l0O-gun man
of war, 700 lives lost.
1 Manu-, 74-gun East India war
ship, 459 lives lost.
Pembroke. 60-gun British man
of-war, wrecked, $50 lives lost.
Prince George, British line of
battle-ship, burned at sea, 400 lives
lost.
East Indian ship Indiaman, $50
lives lost.
Ajax, British frigate, wrecked,
$50 persons perished.
Protector, East Indiaman, sunk.
Out of 17S passengers only 8 were
saved.
Losses FROM COLLISIONS.
Fogs, careless lookouts and snow
storms are the contributory causes
of many marine disasters which
have become painfully prominent
in the history of the past so years,
and list of the principal losses
may not be uninteresting as a re-
minder of eveLts, which, in their
turn, brought sorrow to hundreds
of families and aroused the fears of
those whose business or pleasure
send them upon Transatlantic travel.
In 1854 the steamship Arctic, one
of the crack vessels of the Collins
feet, was lost in collision with the
French mail steamer Vesta, and
went down with hundreds of her
passengers and crew, millions of
dollars in gold and q full and valu-
able cargo. The collision was due
to dense fog. The fircmen and
coal-passers seized the boats, but
they were swamped, and only about
40 people out of more than 400
were saved to tell the tale of the
wreck.