The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1884-10-31 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SHIPPING DISASTERS.  Lloyd's agent at Maryborough cabled on Monday: "Chang Chow (British steamer), frpm Newcastle, N.S.W., for China, has gone ashore at Sandy Cape, and reports indicate that she is badly damaged. A steamer has gone to her assistance. A portion of the crew and passengers were saved. The remainder (seven in number) are missing." The St. Jaques (steamer), Plessen master, Havre for Antwerp, with a general cargo, arrived at Dover and docked on Monday, with serious damage to starboard quarter, having been in collision off Dungeness with the three-masted schooner Amaranth, of Padstow, from Par for Dordt, with china clay. The Amaranth sank and four of her crew were drowned. Captain Coombes and one man were saved by theFavourite (smack), of Dover. The survivors of the Amaranth made statement before the Board of Trade officer at Dover on Monday. They stated that their ship commenced sinking immediately after she was struck. They called out, but no one answered them from the steamer. Three of the men went down with the ship, and one man was killed. The two survivors, the captain and the cook, attempted to lower a boat, but it was fouled by a rope. They were cast into the sea, and while swimming about they got bold of a ship's chock. They clung to this for an hour and threequarters, until one of Drake's Dover fishing smacks came up and rescued them. They were then nearly exhausted, as it was a bitterly cold morning. The steamer came into Dover, and has a large hole in her side. About 2.30 p.m. on Sunday the steamer Altyre, of Aberdeen, from Smyrna, in proceeding up the Thames collided with the Tanfield (steamer). The latter sank, and lies off Plaistow Marshes. No one was injured. The Altyre afterwards proceeded to London.  Telegrams from Massluis report that the Littlebeck (British steamer), from Odessa for Rotterdam, has gone ashore at Maasluis, and will be a total loss. Captain and thirteen of the crew drowned. The pilot and six of the crew saved landed at 2if aasluis. A collision occurred between the screw steamer Hero, of Middlesbrough, and the screw steamer Lady Jossyan, of London, about three miles off Flamborough Head, on Sunday. The Jossyan, which was coal laden, from the Tyne to the Thames, was struck on the port side and sunk immediately. The crew were saved by the Hero. A small screw steamer, named the Success, of Sunderland, while on a voyage from that port to Arbroath, has gone ashore at Goulmer, on the North Coast, and is likely 'to become a total wreck. The crew were taken off by the lifeboat. Throughout Saturday and Sunday a terrific' storm, accompanied by flashes of lightning, passed over the Furness district, and two ships were wrecked at the entrance to Barrow Harbour. A fine new vessel, the Depositor, 1,497 tons, Captain A. Telfer, left Barrow on Saturday morning for New Orleans, in charge of the Liverpool tug Hotspur. When about a mile off Hilpsford Buoy the tow-rope broke loose, and the captain ordered bath anchors to be let go. The following morning, on the storm increasing, the port chain parted. Two other anchors were lowered, but the vessel still dragged, and she was run on to the foul ground, where she was at the mercy of the wind and waves. The Piel lifeboat landed the captain and crew at Barrow. The crew were in the rigging, and the vessel, which is going to pieces, wa-t under water when the lifeboat reached the wreck.  ' REWARDS FOR GA_LLANTII4. The Committee of the Royal Humane Society has unanimously bestowed its Silver Medal upon Mr. Thomas Allnutt Brassey, undergraduate of Balliol College, Oxford, for the efforts by which he materially contributed to the rescue from drowning of a boat's crew in Loch Curron, Rossshire, on the 30th ult. On the recommendation of the Duke of Edinburgh, Vice Admiral Commanding the Channel Fleet, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Silver Medal has also been awarded to Lieutenant J. Startinj R.N., her Majesty's ship Minotaur, for sawing the lives of five persons who were capsized from a boat at Portland. Lieutenant Stettin had previously received the Society's Bronze Medal and Clasp, and the Duke of Edinburgh, in writing on thir ease, says that "Lieutenant Startin incurred great personal risk in performing this very meritorious service." On the recommendation of the Secretary of State for War, the Silver Medal has also been conferred upon Major A. E. Goodyear, let Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, for a gallant attempt to save the if, of • stowaway lad named Jones, who fell from the steam-ship Nubia in the Red Sea. Though it was well known that sharks abounded in that part, Major Goodyear plunged into the sea without divesting himself of any of his clothing, and swam about for twenty minutes in the vain search for the lad, his head exposed to the mid - day sun. The vessel was running eleven knots an hour at the time of the occurrence, with all her canvas set. On the recommendation of the Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves the Silver -Medal has also been awarded to J. M'Cluskey, boy, aged 10, 'of the Industrial Training Ship Wellesley, lying in the Tyne, of North Shields, for saving, on the 24th ult., D. Bonnor, aged 13, of the same vessel, who fell from the bowspirt into the water, a height of thirty feet. On the recommendation of the Field Marshal Commanding the Chief (the eircumstanoes of the case having also been laid before her Majesty), the Bronze Medal luts been awarded to Private H. Loraine, 3d Battalion Grenadier Guards, now serving in the Camel Corps in the Nile Expedition, for plunging off the bridge whioh extends over the water in Kensington gardens, and rescuing a man named Pop*, who attempted suicide on the evening of the 23rd ult. The dive was a high one, 23 feet, and as the water is only between five and six feet deep, the-risk of striking the bottom was considerable. The Duke of Cambridge has also requested the Assistant Adjutant General to convey to Loraine "her Majesty's high sense of the courageous act he performed in saving the man's life."  rHE