The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-02-16
DISASTERS AT SEA.
A Long List OF Vessels That Never
Reached Port

edition to long list OF disasters at sea,
Among the ships which have sailed out
OF one port aud never reached their des
| tinatioDs were the steamships President,
City Of Glasgow, Pacific, Ocean Monarch
and City of Boston. Not one of those
ships has ever been heard from or seen
since 1t sailed away. A hundred causes
have been advances which would
account fer their sudden dis
appearance, and hundred things
might happen which would wreck
them In mid-ocean. One OF the saddest
! OF these ocean mysteries, says the Chica-
go Tribune, was the fate of the 1870 per-
sons who sailed away from Philadelphia
on December / 1859, on the ironclad
Atlanta, rechriStencd Triumpho 1t had
been purchased by the Haytian govern
ment aud its destination was Port Au
Prince. 1t had aboard two Haytian sena-
tors, the wife OF a commanding officer, q
crew and over 100 young men who had
been recruited in Philadelphia. 1t eft
port and passed off the face of the water,
when or where has never become known.
| The City OF Boston cleared at New
York January 25, 1870, and sailed the
same day for Liverpool by way
OF halifax, with twelve cabin and forty
five steerage passengers aboard and Capt.
j. j. Halorou. AT Halifax 1t took forty
cabin and ten steerage passengers and
proceeded The only thing found that
| bore upon the disaster was q board,
picked out OF the sea February IL, 1870,
| upon which was scratched q message
saying the ship was sinking at the time.
The British ironclad Captain. with 472
souls on board, was mado plaything OF
by the waves at midnight, September 20.
1870, off Cape Finisterre, and inside of
three minutes 1t was capsiZed and sink
ing. 1t had heavy guns on board at the
time, and its low frseboatd initiated
against lis riding out the storm without
damage. There were aboard at the time
its captain. Hugh Burgoyne, and Capt.
Cowper Cowles, the designer OF the yes
| sci.
| The steamship Ella sailed from Lon
don in the fall OF 1878, and the friends of
those who took passage in it waited for
| years for any news concerning the lost
ones.
SO IL was with the steamer City Of
Glasgow. 1t left Liverpool March s.
1854, and headed for Philadelphia.
Four hundred and eight human beings
went down with it In mid-ocean
The steamship Pacific, of the Collins
line, from the same port, January %.
1856, bound for New York, carried 1856
passengers. They were not heard OF
again.
| There was mourning in Two Countries
England and America-when IT was final
| ly conceded that the steamship Presl-
dent, which had left New York for LIVER
pool March IL, 1871, had been wrecked
and lost. There was ABOARD the vessel
when 1t sailed large number of promi-
Dent passengers, among whom was the
sou Of the Duke OF Richmond.
The steamer Hungarian, OF the Mon
treal Ocean Steamship Co., was lost
February 20, 1850, on Cape Ledge, near
Halifax. There was lost 205, Including
all the officers.
The White Star steamer Atlantic was
lost off Marshead, near Halifax. April .,
1879. OF 900 steerage and so cabin
passengers $40 were lost. The Atlantic
was bound for New York from Liver
pool.
The Vile du Havre was lost on clear
night, November %, 1878. by running
into the sailing vessel Lochearn in mid
ocean. The steamer sank aud 226 per-
sons went down.
The Siberia aud Barton collided April, !
1874. and not soul was saved.
The Hamburg mail steamer Schiller
was wrecked in fog on the Scilly |
Islands May {, 1875. and 33l people |
persisted.
The French steamer Byzantine colided |
ttE h. TIT.
Dardaneles December IS. 1878 and 200 |
were lost.
The Ava. British India Navigation
Co ship was sunk in the Bay OF Bengal
and 30 lives were lost.
The Oncle Joseph, French steamer
collided with the Ortiaga off Stezzia No
vember "a. 1850, and $50 were lost.
The Hamburg American steamer
Cimbria was sunk by the Sultan January
81, 1888, and 39S persisted.
The steamer Geiser and Thipgvaia .
collided Off Sable Island August ID, 1883, !
and LOG were lost.
November 10, 1855, the WA. Scholten,
from Rotterdam for New York, ran into |
a collier off Dover, and l32 lives were
lost.
Two years aud half ago the Naronic
from New York was lost and never again
heard from.
Among the most recent OF naval hor-
rors is the sinking of the English battle
ship Victoria Off the coast of Tripoli by
the Camperdowu, another man-sf-war.
The loss Of merchant and other ships
from various causes had been estimated
at Lloyds in 1900 to be about an average
OF 365 shi ps a year, or one every day.
In 1890 II was shown that or British
vessels alone were wrecked during that
year. Subsequent years, particularly
1882. were disastrous to shipping, and 10
the following twenty-five years 1t was
estimated that NJ least 10000 wrecks
occurred.
First pub. Feb. 10, 1895. Last March IS, 1895
NOTICE.