New-York tribune., 1911-12-19
ROYAL SH|PWRECKS
Few PreCedentS for the Loss of
the Liner Delhi.

copyright 1911 by tho Brentwood Company
pova,tv. although It spends so much Of
-. time on the water. either travelling or
.,,,s,nc for pleasure. is rarely shipwrecked.
.. necessary 10 explain this in order TO APP
.,.ciate the sensation created in Europe by
-. sb,owreck on the rocky Moorish coast,
.. night. I'm a storm, OF the great ocean
u,er Delhi. on which tho Princess Royal OF
Great Britain. eldest sister OF King George;
,er two daughters, the Pincesses Alexan-
J.. and Maud. and her husband. the Duke
~ Fife. were voyaging to Egypt where
,boy arc TO spend the winter.
Tho Princess Royal. who until the birth
- children 10 King George stood next to
lin i'm the line Of succession TO the throne
rs for years been in such frail health as
%. make necessary her spending all the
,Iptcrs on the upper reaches of the Nile.
IN the circumstances IT is pretty well as
surcd that her experiences on the night OF
the wreck. when she was literally dropped
from the deck OF the Delhi into the lie
boat bobbing up and down I'm the breakers
hollow. her night garments covered merely
lv a cloak. and was then battered ABOUT
In the surf after the Capsizing OF the me-
boat n bcaching. and saved from drown
ing only through the lfebelt around her
waist and the gallant efforts of some OF
,be sailors who managed TO seize her as
size WAS being swept back into the breakers
nv tbc undertow. are certain 10 have some
effect on her health. Perhaps they may
,rovo final and fatal blow. on the other
hand. the shock may have such bracing
effect as 10 completely restore her
The last instance of a royal or Imperial
eripvreck was when I'm the fall of 1901. the
uussian imperial yacht STANDARD. with the
czor the Czarina and their children on
hoard. struck ON "a hidden rock in the Gun
~ Finland. Previous TO that Archduke
r,uis Salvador Of Austria was wrecked on
tive coast of Tunis his Yacht being a COM
t1.tc loss. while his brother. Archduke
John. is ropdlarly supposed TO have been
,ripUrr,kcd somewhere I'm the neighhor-
ro.d # Care Horn. since nothing has ever
peou heard of him, Of his companions or cf
his shin. the Margherita. since she sailed
from la Plata Tor Valparaiso some twenty
wears ago. The late KING Edwards sailor
brother. Alfred Duke Of Edinburgh. who
died as sovereign of the German duchies
of SaNe-Coburg and Gotha. suffered ship
wreck ON board his flagship. the sultan,
which struck a rock and foundered some
sixty miles away from Malta. his equerry
I'm attendance az the time being Lord Mayo's
trotber tho late Commodore the Hon.
Maurice Rourke who was so celebrated IS
Jonah throughout the English navy for
the number Of maritime disasters in which
he figured that he found il difficult TO get
ANYBODY 10 sail with him.
Queen Victoria on one occasion had a
narrow escape from being wrecked. She
was travcrsing tho Solent from Osborne TO
Cosrort. On her steam Yacht. the Alberta.
which was proceeding at a high rate of
speed. when the yacht Mstletoe got into
way and was run down three lives being
lost The Alberta. marvellous 10 relate
sustained relatively little injury, but the
Queens escape was narrow one, and ever
afterward she insisted that the yachts on
which she was travelling should proceed
ri a much lower rate Of speed than pre-
yiously.
Duke Frederick William of MecklenburG-
Scbwerin. brother Of the Regent Of Bruins
wick and Of the Prince Consort Of the
Netherlands was drowned when the Ger
man torpedo destroyer which he command
ID foundered in a gale i'm the Baltic going
down with all hands on board. He was
afianced at the time to the German Kai-
eorin's Youngest sister, Princess Fedora
Of SchleswiC- Holstein. who refused all sub
soauent offers Of marriage, distinguished
herself as a novelist of exceptional merit
and died about year ago.
King James IL of England was ship
wrecked off the coast of Norfolk. not far
from Yarmouth. and was rescued with ex-
treme difficulty. a number of his mobiles
I'm attendance on him being drowned. His
first cousin. Prince Maurice Of Bohemia,
who. after the execution OF his uncle. King
Charles I Of England, 10 whom he was
devoted. led the rowing life OF buccaneer'
which has furnished the theme Of many
a novel. perished in a shipwrecK Ard then
there is Of course King Richard Cnur-de-
Lion. who was wrecked on the coast Of
Dalmatia on his way home from the Holy
Land. and who was held in captivity in
Austria for many years until found and
rescued by mis- favOrite minstrel Blondel;
while King Henry rs only son, Prince Will
lam. was drowned with a number Of his
mobiles, while on his way from Nornandy
10 England in 11l9.