LOSS OF LARGE ATLANTIC LINERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 334, 28 February 1874, Page 3

LOSS OF LARGE ATLANTIC LINERS.

The Ville dv Havre is the fourteenth large Atlantic liner totally lost, with great sacrifice of life, since 1840. The first great disaster of this class was that which occurred to the Governor Fenner, bound from Liverpool to New York, which was run down off Holyhead in February. 1841, when 122 persons perished. The President, as far as known, foundered in the following month, In August, 1848, the Ocean Monarch was burned off Great Orme's Head a few hours after leaving Liverpool,, and 178 lives were sacrificed. On Christmas Eve, 1852, the St. George, from Liverpool to New York, was burned at sea, with about 50 persons. The George Canning, coming out from Hamburg, was bst, with 96 lives, on New Year's Day, 1855. The Pacific, which was the first ' steamer to cross the Atlantic in less than ten days, disappeared with 136 passengers and crew in ]856, being supposed to have struck on an iceberg. The Austria was burned in mid -ocean, with 471 souls on board, in September, 1858 ; and the Indian y was lost off Newfoundland with 27 lives, in November, 1859. The Hungarian, with 205 persons, went down near the coast of Nova Scotia in February, 1860 ; and 240 lives were lost in the wreck of the Anglo-Saxon off Cape Race in April, 1863. The City of Boston was probably wrecked on an iceberg in February, 1870, with several hundred victims, not one of whom has been heard of since. 2i perished in the wreck of the Germania, off La Rochelle, in December, last. Tne collision between the Northfleet and the Murillo in January caused a loss of 350 lives, and about 560 were sacrified in the wreck of the Atlantic on. the Ist of April.