ILL-FATED STEAM.
[NEW YORK ' HEEAXD;>] '■. 1 r: ; ; i > wing is a list of the losses of transatlantic steamers from the year 184L^^ todate^ ■'* '/ f ??V ; 0V "~ .President (Br;)— Left ;N/ew. York : March il,- 1841; arid; 'never ;/ riearlii ir from. Among her pasenge'rßwere Tyrone Power7> thebpmedian: ana a;spn 'of the Diike ! of' Richmond! ::^ x ' ™* v - x ?^-J-™\\ . Columbia /Br.)— wrecked !!ini,^ fog ' on the coast of Nova ScotiaiJuly 1, ifeLGreat Britian (Br).— Lost in a storm on the coast pf Ireland,; September ;22, lß46. Helen fSloman (Br)i-T-Foondered ia raid-ocean, November, -IjSSO; -9 lives lost. '■■■ StrGebrge (8r).4-Pestrpyell by-fir^ at sea. December 24/ 1852 ;' si: HVes loft. Humb"6ldt ? (Ger)i-^ Wrecked near Halifax,;£eceiiberis, JpS:?" : c " ! ; ; a ; City of G1m?oW : (Brj.~^eyer '^eird" of .after leaving Glasgow in ' spring t of ', 1854 j 480 lives lost. ' ■ - '*"'%'{;■:s' ■{ Franklin (Am.)— Wrecked of Moricnes, L. I. ;: July 17,-1854. Arctic '(Am).-— Run down by French steamer Vesta,- off Newfoundland;- September 27, .1854 1 3001iyes lost. City of Philadelphia (Br). Wrecked in 1854. ; -.•'-- .. ■■-,/ :\ !:>•■'■■'■■ ;• ; Pacific (Am.)-^-Never heard from after leaving Liverpool, January 23, 1856 ) 200 lives lost. ' Le Lyonnais (Fr).— Collided with ship Adriatic, off. Nantucket, November 2, 1856; 120 livesicst.;;;:; ';;,:;■,:. Tempest (Br).— Lost with all on board ; never heard from after she left New York, February .26, 1857^ v»]v York l(Br);— Lost, at seaV.Jnne 1858. i /, Austria (Ger).— Burned in mid-ocean, September J 3, 1858; ; 470 lives^ lost. Argo (Br),— rWrecked in; a fog ; on , the coast of Newfoundland, June 28J 1859. Indian (Efr).— Wrecked oniKe; ! Qßast of Nova Scotia, November '2L; 1859 -27 lives lOSfc , r .;;;.■;•-■ ■:'-'■ 'r-.v (^ Hungarian (Br).— -Wrecked o&f Nova Scotia,. February; 20, 1860 ; 205 lives lost. Corinaught (Br).-rßurned off jbtie coast of Massachusetts, October 7, I860;: : • ' • Canadian; • (Br). •^-Wrecked' iby ■ ' BUfiken ice in the Strait of Belleistoi June x^l 85 lives loßt. .&•&?.
North Britain (Brt. —^Wrecked during a storm on Paraquet bland. November 6, 1861. Norwegian (Br).— Wrecked on St. Paul's Island, June 14, 3863. Anglo Saxon (Br).— Wrecked off Cape Race, April 27, 1863 ; 203 lives lost. Georgia (Br).— Lost on Sable Island, in ' a fog, August 4, 1863. Bohemian (Br.^Wreoked off Cape Elizabeth, February 22, 1864; 20 lives lost. City of New York (Br).— Wrecked on Daunt'sßock, Queenstown, March 29, 1864. Juba (Br). — Wrecked off Liverpool, November 3, 1864. lowa (Br). — Wrecked off Cherbourg, December 10, 1864. Glasgow (Br).— Burned off Nantucket, July 31, 1865. Scotland (Br). — Collided with ship Kate Dyer, Sandy Hook, December 1, 1866 ; 13 of the Kate Dyer's crew lost. Hibernia (Br). — Founderd off Irish Coast, November 29, 1868 ; 50 lives lost. United Kingdom , (Br). — Left New York April 17, 1869 ; never heard from ; 89 lives lost. Germania (Br). — Lest in a fog on the coast of Newfoundland, August 7, 1869. - Cleopatra (Br). — Lost in a fog off coast of Newfoundland, August 8, 1869. City of Boston (Br).— Left New York January 25, 1870 ; called at Halifax, and was never afterwards heard from ; about 160 lives lost. Cambria (Br). — Wrecked on Irish Coast, October 19, 1870 ; 190 lives lost. Dacian (Br).— Wrecked near Half ax, April 9, 1872. Tripoli (Br).— Wrecked on coast of Ireland, May 17, 1872. Britannia (Br).— Wrecked in Firth of Clyde, January 27, 1873. Atlantic (Br). — Wrecked on Marr's Rock, N. S., April 1, 1873 j 562 lives lost. City of Washington (Br). — Wrecked on coast of Nova Scotia, July 7, 1873. Ismalia(Br). — Left New York September 22, 1873 ; never heard from. Missouri (Br).— Wrecked on the Bahamas, October 1, 1873. \ VilleDu Havre (Fr).— Foundered at v December, 1873; collided with British ship Loch Earn, latitude 47 deg. north, longitude 35 deg. we3t ; 226 lives "" lost. Scanderia (Br). — Sailed from New York, October, 1872 ; never heard from. Anna (Nor).— Left New York, February, 1873 ; yet unheard from. Europe (Fr). — Abandoned at sea, April 3, 1874, latitude 48 deg. 3 mm. < north, longitude 30 deg. 40 mm. west. Amerque (Fr). — Fou ndered eighty miles from Brest, April 14, 1874 ; one life lost. Nederland (Belg).— Stranded on Brigantine Shoals, April 16, 1874. Total, 49; Of these there were :— British, 37 ; French, 4; American, 3; German, 3 ; Norwegian, 1 ; Belgian, 1.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1843, 2 July 1874, Page 2
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682ILL-FATED STEAM. Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1843, 2 July 1874, Page 2
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