The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-18

eldest sister OF King George, her two
daughters, the Princesses Alexandra
ana Maud and her husband. the Duke
oil Fire. were voyaginS to Egypt, where
they arc 10 spend the winter
The princess royal. who until the
birth OF children to King George. stood
next TO him in tho line Of succession
10 the throne, has for years been in
such frail health as to necessitatc her
spending all the winters on the upper
reaches OF the Nile. Under tho cir
| cumstances, II Is pretty we'll as
| sured that her experiences on tho
night Of the wreck, when she was 1T
orally dropped from the deck of the
Delhi into the lifeboat bobbing UP and
down In the breakers below. her night
garments merely covered by a cloak
and was then battered about In the
surf after the capsizing Of the life
boat in Bleaching and only saved from
drowning through the life belt around
her waist and the gallant efforts OF
some of the sailors. who managed to
seize her as she was being swept back
into the breakers by the undertow.
are certain to have some effect on her
health. Perhaps they may prove Il
final and fatal blow. On the other
hand, the shock may have such u brac-
ing effect as to completely restore her.
The last instance of a royal or i'm
pcrlal shipwreck was when in the fall
of 1907, the Russian imperial yacht
STANDARD with tho Gear, the C2arina
and their children on board. struck on
q hidden rock in the Gulf of Finland.
Previous to that Archduke Louis SAL
Nator, Of Austria, was wrecked on thu
coast OF Tunis. his yacht being n com
plcte loss. while his brother, Archdukc
John. is popularly supposed to have
been shipwrcckcd somewhere in the
,N1f,, I, I.S, ,l<
ing has ever been heard of him, of his
companions or of his ship, the Mar
Sherita. since she sailed from La
Plata for Valparaiso, some twenty
years ago. Tho late King Edwards
sailor brother, Alfred, Duke of Edin-
burgh. who died as sovereign of the
German Duchics of SaXe-Coburg and
Gotha, suffered shipwreck on board
his flagship Sultan, which struck on a
rock and foundered some sixty miles
away from Malta, his equerry in at
tendance at the time being Lord Mayo's
brother. the late Commodore, tho Hon.
Maurice Bourkc, who was so celc-
bratcd as n Jonah throughout the
English navy for tho number OF mari
time disasters In which he figured
that he found 1t dimcult TO get any
body to sail with him.
Queen Victoria on one occasion had
a narrow escape from being wrecked.
She was traversing the Solent from Oa-
borne to Gosport, on her steam yacht
the Alberta. which was proceeding at
n high rate of speed, when the yacht
Mtstletoe got in tho way and was run
down, three lives being lost. The AL
berta. marvellous to relate, sustained
relatively little injury, but the Queens
escape was narrow one. and ever af
forwards she insisted that the yachts
on which she was travelling should
proceed at much lower rate OF speed
than previously
Duke Frederick William, of Mock
lenburg- Schwerin, brother of the Re-
gent of brunswick and of the prince
consort OF the Netherlands, was
drowned when the German torpedo
destroyer. which he commanded, found
cred in gale in the Baltic, going
down with all hands on board He
was attianced at the time to tho Cor
| man Kaiserins youngest sister, Prin-
cess Foodora. of Schleswig- Holstein.
who refused all subsequent offers Of
marriage, distinguished herself as
| novelist OF exceptional merit and died
about year ago. King James H., OF
| England. was shipwreckcd off the
coast OF Norfolk. not far from Var
| mouth. and was rescued with extreme
| difficulty, number of his mobiles in
attendance upon h.sn being drowned.
| His first cousin, Prince Maurice OF Bo-
| hemia, who after the execution of his
| uncle. King Charles l. Of England to
whom he was devoted: led the rowing
| lifo Of q buccaneer. which has furnish
| cd tho theme for many n novel, perish.
| ed In a shipwreck. And then there is,
OF course. King Richard Occur do lion.
who wac wrecked on tho coast of Dali
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