A STORM IN THE ATLANTIC.

Evening Star, Issue 3690, 19 December 1874, Page 2 (Supplement)

A STORM IN THE ATLANTIC.

All the European steamships arriving at this port last week reported having encountered a terrific storm west of the Banks on Monday, the 7th September. In every instance it began with the wind from the south-east, veering round to the south-west, when it reached its height, then gradual) v subsiding as the wind changed to the north-west. The course of this cyclone, as all the facts show it to have been, was from south-west to north-east. The Ville de Paris, the most westerly of the ships which encountered it, did so in latitude 40, and longitude 66, and the last report of it we have from a passenger on the steamship Pembroke, of the fcsouth Wales line, which passed through it in latitude 43 and longitude 5/. In the former case it occurred at d a.in., and in the latter at half-past 12 p.m,, thus traversing a distance of about 450 miles in ten hours and ahalf, or at the rate of about forty-five miles an hour. Our informant states that before the full force oi the storm was felt the barometer fell from 29.50 to 28.80 within half-an-h.our. The Pembroke had every sail set, but before they could be taken in the wdnd began to blow with such force 'that in a moment her topsails and forestaysails were blown from the bolt-: opes as if they had been paper. The vessel was headed to the wind, but its force was such that the engine, though kept at full speed, could hardly give her steerage way. Our informant, who is an old Atlantic voyager, states that, although he has witnessed so me severe storms on the North Atlantic, he never witnessed one so severe daring its contmuance of about ten hours. The sea was at its vey wildest. The Tembroke, a vessl of 2,500 tons, proved herself a splendid sea boat, and suffLved no further injury than the loss of her sails. A-t the end of August last year a similar, though not no severe a storm, occurred very much in the same locality.—* New York Herald,’ September 14.