THE GREAT WRECKS of a CENTURY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 12 September 1891, Page 4

THE GREAT WRECKS of a CENTURY.

Terrible though the Utopia catastrophe be, the loss of life on similar occasions has been greater. Thus there were 800 men on i board the Royal George when she foundered i off Spithead, and Goo of them were drowned. The loss of the Princess Alice remains a shocking story of loss of life by wreck, since between Coo and 700 persons were drowned. The Utopia disaster is closely approached by the wreck of the White Star liner Atlantic, which struck on Meagher Rock in 1873, with a loss of about 560 lives. We append a list of the most disastrous wrecks of the last hundred years : — Lives Lost, 17S2 — H.M.S Royal George, wrecked off Spithead.. .. .. .. 600 1786— Halswell, Hast Indiaman . . 386 iSjo — Royal Adelaide, wrecked on the Tongue Sands, off Margate . . 400 1852 — Cirkenhead, troopship, wrecked in Simon's Bay, South Africa. . 454 ISs9— Royal Charter, wrecked off the coast of Anglesea . . . . 446 iB60 — Lady Elgin, sank through collision on Lake Michigan ; Mr. Herbert Ingram, M. P., founder of the Illustrated London Neirs, and his son drowned . . . . 287 1866 — The London, foundered m the Bay of Biscay; Mr. G. V. Brooke, the tragedian, was drowned.. .. .. .. 226 1870— H.M.S. Captain, foundered near Finisterre „ . . „ 472 IS72 — Northfleet, run into off Dungeness 300 1873— Atlantic, White Star Liner, wr'k'd on Meagher Rock . . . . 560 IS78 — H.M.S. lunydice, capsized near Ventuor . . . . . . . . 300 IS78 — Princess Alice, pleasure steamer, run into in the Thames, near Woolwich, by the By well Castle 600 or 700 I S;3— Grosser Kurfnvst, sunk by collision . . . . . . . . 300 ISB7 — Kapmida, emigrant ship, sunk off the East Coast of S. America 300 logo— H.M.S. Serpent, wrecked off the coast of Spain . . . . . . 200 j