The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-20

october s, 1864; Black Hawk destroyed
by fire on April 22, 1865; Bloomer sank,
1865: Chattanooga, sunk by ice at
League Island, 1872; Columbia, IRON
clad, wrecked off North Carolina, 1868;
Comomdore MaCdonough foundered
August 90. 1865; Crocus wrecked Au-
gust, 1868; Edith, lost; Lavender wreck
cd June 10, 1854 Lily sunk by collision
May 3. 1868: Maria wrecked by collisions
Madge sunk off Frying ran Shoals
October II, 1868; Pink lost September.
1865; Rather wrecked and abandoned
December 3O 1864.
During the civil war the Hatteras
was sunk by the Alabama; the Keo-
kuk went down i'm the battle off Char
lesion, 5. c.; the Mississippi was de-
strOyed at Port Hudson; the Ironsides
was burned at League Island: the
PetcrhOf sank in collision; the South
field was sunk by a rebel ram. and the
Switzerland by Confederate batteries;
the Tulip blew up. Thirty-eight United
States vessels were blown up by mines
during the war and six by various
! forms of torpedoes. Among these vcs-
| sells were the Althea, Baron de Kalb
| Cairo, Commodore Jones. Harvest
! Moon, Housatonic, Ida, Milwaukee,
| NarCissus, Osages. Otesgo, Patapsco,
| Rudolph, Sciota, monitor Tecumseh.
Among recent notable casualties to
| foreign mcn-of-war are the following
| Doterel British; lost with all hands in
| the straits of Magellan in 1887, as the
result of an explosion ascribed to ex-
| plosive paint. Captain, British, hybrid
monitor; turned turtle in the Bay of
! Biscay, September, 1871 and went
down with all on board, including her
| inventor, Captain COwper Coles. Van
| guard. British; rammed and sank by II.
NJ. S. Iron Duke during a fog Septem-
ber t. 1870 Koenig Wilhelm. German
sunk by the Grosser Kurfurst in col
lision in 1873 OF her crew Of 497 men
| 2Si were lost Victoria, British: SUM.
| by collision with the Camperdown dur
| ing nEvl manoeuvers; 321 men were lost
| out Of $50.
Furydice. British training ship; cap
| sized in a squall off the Isle of Wight
on Sunday, March "a 1873. Very few
of the 300 boys on board were saved
Reveria Regente, Spanish; INSULT
ciently ballasted and foundered in a
storm March, 1895, while en- route from
Spain to Algiers. No trace of her has
ever been discovered.
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pounds of gunCOtton. in a Schwartz.
kopf type Of torpedo, exploded under
her bow and sent her to the bottom il
shallow water, where the Brazilian
government afterward closed the hol
and towed the ship to dry dock.
Ting-Yuen. Chinese vessel sunk by
torpedo in the battle of the Yalu. Th,
shock when the torpedo exploded was
heavy, quivering one, such as an earth
quake might give. The sound of tn,
explosion was a loud duh thud. !
column of water dashed on board. anC
there was faint, sickly smell from tn,
explosion. Within a minute the waite
was bubblng up from a hatch in tn
armOred deck. Within two or thre
minutes there was a considerable
amount of water under the plates il
the port engine ROOM The ship was s.
shaken struCturally that both bulk
heads and water-tight doors were rem
) dered practically useless. The vesse
was beached, and divers reported tha
the damage covered an area of four o
| five feet square between frames l
and l..