FOUNDERING OF THE GENERAL.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 835, 31 March 1871, Page 2

FOUNDERING OF THE GENERAL.

■.{ ■ i: : :OVER SIXTY IIVBS LOST. We regret to have to announce the total loss of the well-known steamer Gen. Outram, of JJombay^ivith th captain's wife, Mi» W. A. Milne, Mr W.'E.Parrett, the chief engineer, forty-eight passengers, and several seamen, on the morning of the 15th instant. The General Outram was well known as one "of that line of steamers which, together with the Lord Clyde, GeneraJlHavelock, and Tilly, conveyed cargo and passengers from Bombay every week to Rutnagberry, Vingorla, Gao, Carwar Compta, Mangalore, Cannrnore, Tellicherry, Calicut, Beypore, Cochin, and other ports, and was commanded by Captain Teasdale, According tb the usual announcement she sailed from Bombay on the sfch of [January, and arrived safely at Cochin, which port she left on the 11th instant. Not getting a telegram from Vingorla as usual, che owners, Messrs Chunder, Ramjee, and Co., telegraphed to the place at which the steamer should have touched, asking why they had not heard, and the reply to that enquiry which was received yesterday (17th) was " Outram went straight to Bombay from Goa, stormy weather;" snd afterwards another telegram was received to the following effect :— " Reporb brought this morning by passengers picked up by Phlox states that the General Outram 'plunged' near Jeytapoor at three o'clock in the morning of the 15th, seventeen of the crew, the captain and two passengers out of fifty saved ; the captain arid crew are carried by the Phlox to Gogo." Captain Dixon, Lloyd's surveyor, has also received a telegram as follows :— "Phlox arrived here safely, General Outram sank off Jeytapoor."— Bombay Times, Jan. 12th. /