The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-05
Fewer Ships Were Lost in 1900
Than Ever Before.
SAILING VESSELS ARE SCARCE.
ncta SlagIs Regular Transatlantic Pssssn.
Ger Liner Was Lost Gur.ng the Plst
Twelve Msnihs = Missing Vessels.

New York. Jan. 4.-Gideon Young. OF
the Maritime Exchange, completed yes
terday his list OF the marine disasters
OF the world for the year just ended.
lie says that the total number OF wrecks
Is less tins year than during any time
during his recollection, and he attrib-
utes 1t TO the Disappearance of sailing
ships from the chief lanes OF the world
Commerce.
steamers are better able to take care
OF Themselves he says "If they lad
themselves III a tight nix they nanase
Ia the majority OF cases to. aet out. Il
not with whole skin, without any gsest
oamase. The sailing snip cannot do rhis.
BcslGes, the same care is not taken Cy
w.nd-j TANNERS. This must have been
profitable year for marine underwriters.
Not single regular liner In the
TRANSATLANTIC passenger trade was lost
thls Year, and whiic a loss OF this kind
Is not usually felt SO keenly by the
underwriters, because OF the companies
insGting themselves, The loss OF Ike and
private property makes the wreck OF
"a BIG liner a serious matter. Altogether
there was not more than Sl5.0co.O0o In
ship property lost this year The Attain
tic was particularly free from ship
wrecks"
FEWER AND LARGER SHIPS.
Considering the small number OF vessels
destroyed as compared with that OF for
mer years, the loss OF lie has been enor-
mously high, Que 10 the fact that vessels
are fewer in number, but larger in bulk
The American agent OF a big London un-
derwTiting firm speaking OF this yester-
day said:
.t1,ha coost e,,,arac,,o,, 81 ~. ,.,o~ia ha,,.
the latest llfesaving devices at their COM
mand, but the tendency TO big ships Is so
great that whole regiment OF men al
most Is required to man one of them
" hen one of them comes to grief the
number OF lives imperilled is equal 10 a
dozen wrecks OF a lew years ago.
There is also remarkable absence OF
destruction OF property and lives through
tire, an element that entered into a con-
siderable portion OF the marine disasters
OF ten years ago. This Is because the big
lines refuse to accept cotton or other
dangerous freight in ships devoted to the
passenger trade.
"An investigation by the English board
OF Trade OF the wrecks for the first seven
months of the year just ended shows that
fully 60 per cent OF them were due to
the carelessness OF their navigators in
not properly using the lead, travelling at
-
carrying insufficient lights or some other
form of negligence. The loss OF the Gu
nard liner Carintha last May was caused
by excessive speed and a bad lookout
High speed in fog was the Cam
panias excuse for cutting In half the
dynamite laden ship Emblaton, In the
Irish channel"
Aside from the destruction of the North
German Lloyd property In Hoboken, on
~ L.. gol, Nat M
Saale were partly destroyed and about $50
lives sacrificed, the most serious losses
have been due 10 the absolute disappear
ance of the craft after they left port.
The Pauillac, chartered by the French
line to carry valuable American exhibits
to the Paris fair. was seon only once af-
ter she left this port for Havre, on Feb
ruary 5. Part of her cargo consisted of
copper, and was valued at $4,000. She
had a crew list OF So men, and not
trace of the vessel has been heard OF
from that day TO this. "
MISSING SHIPS WORTH s5.0oo,ooo.
The missing vessels. including sail
as well as steam, were worth more than
5000, 600. according to several insurance
men who make a speciality OF marine
work The British steamer Rosemorran,
which left Baltimore Jan. 26 for London
derry, ireland, with a cargo of wheat and
a crew OF 80 men, was the first steamer
OF the year to be placed on the missing
list. The Sloman line lost the Livorno,
which steamed past Sandy Hook Feb.
2s bound to Santos, and was not seen
again. She had crew of IS men.
The disasters TO war ships and trans
nnrts were fewer than In former years.
The Oregon had a narrow escape, but
America lost a vessel In the Yosemite
without any great sacrifice Of life. France
lost the torpedo boat Turrell of Cape
Finisterre, and Germany the school ship
Gneisenau off Malaga. Spain. Dec. l6.
Forty-fve lads perished in this wreck.
The japanese also lost training ship,
tn. Tsukishirna. which foundered In q
typhoon in Surga Boy with III officers,
cadets and sailors. Only..a solitary sailor
came from the wreck 'of the steamer