The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-01-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SHIPPING DISASTERS.  The steamer Shoreham, of London, was run into and sunk on Sunday morning at five o'clock off Kentish Knock, by the steamer Co'strap, which proceeded damaged to London. The Shoreham sank immediately, the captain and six others being lost. The survivors, after being taken on board the Colstrup, were transferred to the Prudhoe Castle, and laqded at Dover.  AD socident of an alarming nature occurred to the Dublin Royal Mail steamer Connaught, though fortunately unattended by loss of life. On Saturday night a dense fog set in at Holyhead, and the various steamers crossing the Channel had a most difficult passage. Signals of distress being heard proceeding from the direction of the breakwater, the Life-saving apparatus was got out and was hurriedly taken off to the spot. Here it was found the steamer The Earl Spencer, belonging to the London and North-Western Railway, was fast on the breakwater. In a very short space of time the lifesaving apparatus was at work, and no fewer than 50 passengers were safely taken off the vessel In the meantime the crew of the Holyhead lifeboat had been summoned, and pulled for the wen.. They approached the vessel and took on board seven more passengers. All the passengers having been safely disposed of, attention was then turned to the steamer, which was seen to be in a dangerous position. Three tugs were attached to her, but sifter repeated efforts were unable to move her from off the breakwater. In ease of rough sea, or should the wind unfortunately rise, it was believed the Earl Spenoer would become • wreck. The Liverpool barque Allenby, belonging to Messrs. Peter Teedale and Co. Liverpool, has arrived at Queenstown in a battered condition after a most eventful voyage. The weather encountered waa fearful; the lifeboat, bulwarks skylight', and house were washed away, the forelatoh stove in, and five bulwark ports wrecked. On October 17, a seaman named William Alderson, of Liverpool, fell overboard and was drowned when the vessel was off Cape Horn. Later on William Sparks, a midshipman, fell from the maintopgallant sail and was killed, and • seaman named Cotekien fell overboard from the spanker boom and was never seen again. To crown the chapter of disasters the cook, a man named Ziglar, committed suicide in a most determined manner by filling his pocket with lead and then jumping overboard. Captain Field and six of the crew of the brigantine Veracity, of London coal laden, from Sunderland for Chatham, were landed at shields on Sunday, their vessel having been sunk south of Flawborough Head on Saturday night through a collision with the screw Learner Hugh Taylor, of Newcastle. The Hugh Taylor struck the brigantine a tremendous blow, causing • large hole through which the water reeled rapidly. The crew, some of whom were in bed, had • narrow escape. Feeling the vessel sinking they took to the rig, and afterwards succeeded in scrambling aboard the Hugh Taylor. Three minutes afterwards the Veracity foundered. The crew lost all their clothes and effects.  The Austrian barque Nermina, from Buenos Ayres for Dunkirk, with a cargo of maize, has landed at Falmouth Captain Frundt, his wife, and crew, nine in number, of the German barque Superb., from Newport with coals for the Cape Verde Isds. The Superbe left Newport on Dec. 26, and encountered a sueoession of easterly gales, which caused her to leak badly. On the 2nd instant the Nermina fell in with her, and seeing her disabled condition, lowered a boat and succeeded with great difficulty in rescuing all on board. The Superbe foundered shortly afterwards. The Cato, Norwegian barque, from Wilmington, has arrived at Bristol, having on board the crew of the British barque The Goolwa, from Peuarth for San Francisco, which foundered on New Year's Day. From St. Vincent (C.V.), Llo,yd's agent says that the British steamer Austerlitz reports having spoken the British ship Latimer, Liverpool to San Francisco, which vessel had sustained extensive damage and had her cargo shifted. The boatswain was killed, and three sailors injured. Tux steamer Swansea, of and for London, with (rattle, collided with the Brixham trawler Nimble, off Start Point, the other morning. The latter sank instantly, the skipper, second, third, and fourth hands going down with her.