THE MISSING SHIP ATALANTA.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1925, 26 April 1880, Page 3

THE MISSING SHIP ATALANTA.

Some uneasiness is felt in England regarding the training ship Atalanta, which left Bermuda at the end of January, and has not since been heard of. Bermuda is but about 3000 miles from England, and, considering that the Atalanta has been seventy-two days at sea, it is not to be wondered at that fears are entertained for her safety. When she left Bermuda she had 300 men and boys on board. The Admiralty has ordered the Channel Squadron to institute a search for the missing ship. It is somewhat of a coincidence (remarks the " Sydney Morning Herald _") that the Atalanta, which succeeded the ill-fated Eurydice as training ship, should have been on precisely the same voyage as the Eurydice was when she foundered off the Isle of Wight, during a snow squall, with the loss of about 330 lives. This dreadful calamity occurred on the 24th March, 1878. The Eurydice, like the Atalanta, left Bermuda, after a cruise in the West Indies. The Atalanta was commissioned at Devonport on the 17th September, 1878, and according to the Navy List for January last had the following officers on board :—Captain Francis Stirling ; Lieutenants Frederick A. Blackett, Arthur Dove, Philip B. Fisher; Navy Lieutenant, W. H. Stephens ; chaplain, Rev. Robert Nimmo, M.A.; staff-surgeon, Edward M. Moss, M.D.; paymaster, John Ashton ; sub-lieutenants, Arthur R. Beck, Edward P. Charrington ; surgeon, Lawrence W. Corcoran, 8.A., M. 8.; gunner, David Silk ; boatswains, Frederick Standish, Richard Clancy.