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TOKONTO: MoLKISH & CO., PBtNTIlRS, 1873. ■^-A I'li- '".. ^iTMs3^}>A,4 -^^- LOSS or THB STEAM SHIP "ATLANTIC," OF THE " WMJTM 8TAR'' LINE, ■ w» ■ Whili many are still mourning the loss of friends, and as if it were but yesterday we had the sad story of the Northfleetj there cornea to us another of those dreadful marine disasters by which a helpless crowd of human beings are swept away without warning into eternity. Out of the three hundred women and children, not one of the women, and only one child escaped the fate of their com- panions—the majority of whom wqtq washed out of the steerage. It is impossible to realize without a shudder, the picture of the enormous waye which carried these unfortunates upon its crest, past the vessel and out to sea. The weather was bad, the sea rough, and the night dark. The rock on which the Atlantic struck is clearly laid dOwn in the charts, and why her position was mistaken, it appears difficult to tell. The coast is ii>n extremely perilous one, and calls for the display of great vigilance and care. While there are every year a large number of wrecks, scarcely noticed except by owners, or passed by with brief mention by the newspiipers, the record of great disasters at sea, which shock tbe rettder Is long wad terrible. The history of the present centnry alone is full of instances. A list of the principal ones will be given further on. There were disasters enough, but the wreck of the Mlantic is beyond them all for the extent of its fatality. Description or tbb Atlantic. • The Atlantic was launched at Belfast, Ireland, in 1871 ; was 420 feet long, 40 feet beam, and 23 feet depth of hold, and registered 3,723 tons. She was constructed of iron, and had four masts and six water-tight bulkheads. She was fitted with eleven boilers and four cyclinders on the compound principle. A certain magnificence marked the adornments and upholstery of the Atlantic. The saloon was 80 feet long, and extended entirely across for a width of 40 feet. The lounges and fixed seats were upholstered in crimson velvet. The pannels of the saloon were damask, white, and pink ; and the pilasters, brackets, and cornices were of teak nicked out with gold. The bed hangings of the staterooms and sleeping berths, which were large and commodious, were of green reps ; and the appointments were in all respects elegant and com- plete. The Mlantic arrived in New York on h^er first outward voyage from Liverpool in June 1871. She left on her first return voyage on July the first, following. This was her nineteenth trip, She was valued at $500,000. The Captain's Si*atbment. ■;■'■■ ■ ■ . • ( t " Sailed from Liverpool March 20th ; during the first part of the passage had favourable weather and easterly winds; on the 24th,. 25th, and 26th, experienced heavy south-west and westerly gales, which brought the ship down to one hundred and eighteen miles a cU^., On the 3 1st of March, the engineer's report showed only 127. tons of coal on board. We were then 460 miles east of Sandy Hook, ^ind S. W. and high w^et^rly sw^ii and ialUng barometer^ the shi^ steaming only eight knots per hour. Considered the risk too great to push on, as we might find ourselves in the event of a gale shorty out from any port of supply, and so decided to hear up for Halifaz, atone p.m., on the 31st, Sambro Island north five degrees, east distant 1 70 miles, ship's speed varying from eght knots an hour to twelve ; wind south during the first part with rain ; veered to the westward at eight p.m., with clear weather at midnight; judged the ship to have made 122 miles, which would place her 48 miles south of Sambro I then left the deck and went into the chart-room leaving orders about the lookouts and to let me know if they saw anything, and call me at three a.m., intending then to put the ship's head off to the southwaid, and await daylight. My first inti- mation of the catastrophe, was the striking of the ship on Mar's Island, and remaining fast. The sea immediately swept away all the port boats. The officers went to their stations, and commenced clearing away the weather boats ; rockets were fired by the second officer. Before the boats could be cleared, only ten minutes having elapsed, the ship keeled heavily to port, rendering the starboard boats useless. Seeing no help could be got from the boats, I got the passengers into tlie rigging, and outside the rails, and encour- aged them to go forward, where the ship was highest and less ex- posed to the water. The third officer, Mr. Brady, and quarter- masters Owens, and Speakman, having by this time established communication with the out-iying rock, about forty yards distant, by means of a line, got four other lines to the rock, along which, about two hundred people passed. Between the rock, and the shore, was a passage one hundred yards wide. A rope was suc- cessfully passed across this, by which means about fifty got to the land ; though many were drowned in the attempt. At five a.m. the first boat appeared from the island, but she was too small to he of any assistance. Through the exertions of Mr. Brady, third oflcer, the islanders were aroused| and by six a.ia. three large f :o boats came to onr asuicitance. By their efforts, all Who remained . on the side of the ship and on the rock were landed in safety, and cared for by a poor fisherman named Clancy and his daughter. During the day, the survivors, to the number of 420, were drafted off to the various houses scattered about the village. The resi- dent magistrate, Edmund Byan, Esq., rendered valuable assistance. The chief officer having got up the mizzen rigging, the sea cut off his retreat. He sto d for six hours by a woman who had been placed in the riggin,i^. The sea was too high to attempt his rescue. At three p m. a clergyman. Rev. Mr. Ancient, succeeded in passing him a line, and getting him off. Many of the passen- gers, saloon and steerage, died in the rigging from cold, amongst the number the purser of the ship. Before the boats went out, I placed two ladies in the life-boat, but finding the boat useless, carried them to the main rigging, where I left them, and went aft, to encourage others to go forward on the side of the ship^!' Statement prom the " Chronicle." The following is the « Chronicle's" report of the disaster : It is our painful duty this morning to record the most terrible marine disaster that has ever occurred on our coast, the loss of a great ocean steannship, with about 750 lives. Yesterday afternoon, a report became current that a steamer had been wrecked somcr where on the coast, and one or two lives lost. The report was regarded as one of the canards put afloat on AU-Fools-day, and little regard was paid to it. Soon the report became more definite, and the evening papers were able to state that the steamer « MlantiCj" of the White Star Line, was ashore near Prospect, and several lives had been lost. Even yet the public were inclined to regard the story as a malicious hoax. A little later, however, it becaia,^ kaowu that the report was weU foimded, a|id but ji small part of the truth had been told ; the fact being, that the Mtantic had been wrecked on Meagher's rock, near Prospect, 22 miles west of Halifax, and of about 1,000 souls on board, 750 were lost. Need we say the terrible announcement created a pro- found feeliog of horror throughout the community. Having ascertained that one man from the wrecked ship had arrived in town, a reporter went in sea^ ch ; of him, and found him in an eating house in Upper Water Street. He proved to be Mr. Brady , third officer of the Atlantic, Bruised and worn out, and almost speechless, after the terrible events of the morning, he was, as might be expected, in no condition to talk. Nevertheless, he cheerfully consented to answer the reporter's questiors, and gave such information as he could. The Atlantic^ Mr. Brady said, left Liverpool on Thursday, March 20th, for New York ; touched at Queenstown the next day, to receive mails ani passengers ; after which she started on her voyage across the ocean. She had a full cargo of general mer<;handize, and a very large number of passen- gers. Mr. Brady could not give the precise number, but thought there were more than 800 in the steerage, and about 50 in the cabin. These, with the crew, would, make a total number of not less than 1,000 souls. She was commanded by Captain James Agnew Williams. Bough weather was experienced ; but nothing worthy of note occurred until Monday, the 31st, when coal being short. Captain Williams resolved to put into Halifax for a supply. The Captain and lilr. Brady had the night watch up to midnight, when they were relieved by the chief and fourth officers. At that time they judged that the Sambro light then bore N.N,W. thirty- nine miles. The sea was rough, and the night dark. The chief *and fourth officers having taken charge, Mr. Brady went below, and tutned into his berth. The Captain at the same time went into bid room, to lie down. What occurre^ between midnight and two o^clook. the time at whicii tike disaster occurred. Mr« 8 Bradf cannot telK, as he was sleeping. He was awakened hj being thrown out of his berth by the shock, when the steamer struck. She struck heavily three or four times. Mr Brady ran up to the deck, and found it full of passengers. He found an axe, and with it commenced to clear away the starboard life-boat. He observed that the Captain and other officers were engaged in clearing the other boats« Mr. Brady fiucOeeded in getting his life-boat out, and a rush was made for the boat. This was the only boat launched, and it had no sooner touched the Water than a crowd made a rush to get into it. Mr. Brady had to use force to prevent them crowding in He put two women in, and about a do?;en men also got in. The steamer sunk just then, and in doing so, fell over, and sank the boat, with its living freight. The boat was carried down with the steamer, and all in it were drown- ed. The hull of the steamer became almost totally submerged, and only the bow and the masts remained above water. The greater part of the passengers were in their rooms below at the time, and were immediately drowned. Indeed, so soon after striking did the vessel sink, that many of the passengers were, no donbt sleeping peacefully, in entire ignorance of all that was going on around them, and passed into eternity without a pro- tracted struggle. Of those on deck, numbering several hundred, many were washed oyerboard when the ship fell over, and their cries for help, as they struggled in vain for life, were most heart- rending Many, however, had taken refuge in the rigging and on the bow, and were still living, but with the prospect of almost certain death before them, for they knew not where they were, and were In momentary expectation of the ship sinking further, and engulfing them all, even as they were clinging in desperation to the rigging, with the sea washing fhem continuously. Their situation was most^ trying, i^nd every few minutes some of them, benumbed by cold and exhausted from their struggleS| loosed their hold/ and perished. Two steamers left here at one o'clock to-day, for tie scene. Tbero will be nothing further till they return. Statbmbnt of Mb. J. A. Fibth. Mr. J. A. Firth, of the Mlanticj made a statement in substance as follows : — " My watch ended at twelve o'clock on Monday night. The second and fourth officers took charge, and I went to my berth, I was aroused by the shock of the vessel striking. The second officer came down to my room and said the ship was ashore, and he was afraid she was gone. I put on a few articles of clothing, got an axe, and went on deck to clear the boats. The ship had reeled over before I reached the deck. ,1 cleared the two starboard boats } just then a heavy sea swept our boats away. I was holding fast to the mizzenmast rigging, and now climbed higher for safety. The night wag dark, and the spray was so thick we could not see well what was going on around us. I saw men on the rock, but did not know how they got there. All who were alive on board were in the rigging. When daylight came, I counted 32 persons in the mizzen- mast rigging with me, including one woman^ When these saw that there, wore lines between the ship and the shore many of them attempted to go forward to the lines, and in doing so were washed overboard and drowned. Many reached the shore by aid of the lines, and the fisherman's boats rescued many more. At last all had either been washed of or rescued except me, the woman, and a boy. The sea had become so rough that the boats could not venture near us. Soon the boy was washed off, but he swam gal- lantly and reached one of the boats in safety. I got a firm hold of the woman and secured her in the rigging. I could see the people on shore, and hailed them, them, but they were unable to help us. At two o'clock in the afternoon, after we had been in the rigging ten hours, the I(ev. Mr. Ancient, Church of Ilngland clergym^, 10 whose noble conduct 1 can never forget while I live, got a crew of four men to row him out to the wreck. He got into the main rigging and procured a line, then advanced as far as he conld towards me and threw it to me. I caught it, made it fast around my bndy, and then jumped clear. A sea swept me off the wreck, but Mr. Ancient held fast to the line, pulled me back, and got me safely in ^he boat. I was then so exhausted and benumbed that I was hardly able to do anything for myself, and but for the clergy- man's gallant conduct I must have perished soon. The woman, after bearing up with remarkable strength under her great trials, had died two hours before Mr. Ancient arrived. Her half naked body was still fast in the rigging, a terribly ghastly spectacle, ren- dered more ghastly by the contrast; with the numerous jewels which sparkled on her hands. We had to leave her body there. The scene at the wreck was an awful one, such as I had never before witnessed, and hope never to witness again. Comparatively few bodies drifted ashore; most of them, with such aHicles as came out of the ship while I was on her, were carried to sea." I Mb. FiiBEMAN D. Marewald's Account. Ml'. Freeman D. Markwald, of New York, stiites : — " I turned into my berth at nine o'clock on Monday night and was arorised by the shock ot the ship striking. All the men in the cabin rushed on deck to see what w; s wrong. I went into the saloon, on deck, and observed by a cloc' that the time was 20 minutes past 3. Rocketd were being fired. Within fifteen minutes from the time the ship struck, she careened. The captain, with his oflicers, behaved bravely. They cried out, < Take to the rigging ; it's your last chance.' At daybreak, the fishermen's boats came out, and res- cued a number of us, and landed us on Marr's Island. The hand- ful of- people on the Island warmly welcomed us, gave us food 1. 11 and dothing, and did all for us that they could. Edmund Byan, a magistrate, Denis Kyan, and their wives, were especially active in ministering to our wants. There were three boats' crews whose names deserve a high place on the roll of honour. The first boat was manned by Denis Ryan, James Coolen, Frank Ryan, John Blackburn, and Ben Blackburn ; the second by James O'Brien, Michael O'Brien, Patrick Dollard, William Lacey, and T.J. Toorg. I regret that I have not the names of the other crew. To these men chiefly belong the credit of having, at the risk of their own lives, rescued from death over four hundred souls. They, as well as several others of whose bravery I have heard, shculd certainty receive some reward for their noble conduct. The passengers coming up in the Delta were ringing high the praises of the gallantry of the boats' crews already referred to, and of the Rev. Mr. Ancient, who rescued the perishing chief officer, Brady, and Quarter-masters Speakman and Owens, who first established communication with the shore. The kindness of the Prospect people was also universpUy acknowledged and praised." TaiD ScENB Upon thb Bbach. . When day dawned on Thursday morning, although the night previous had been a storiny one, the waters of Prospect Harbour were calm and smooth as glass. The numero,us inlets and surround- ing fitraits which separated the rocky masses studding the coast were thronged by fishermen's boats of every description. These composed the wrecking fleet, each boat ot which was equipped with srrappling-irons, drags and ropes, bent upon gathering their sad harvest. People, filled with curiosity, examined every rocky surface and piece of the beach along the water line, in quest of bodies or fragme^tl3 of the wreck. Over a granite mass, and on the ahorei 12 ) beyond a large block of stone, lay rows of poor creatures, stark, staring, dead I Side by side were they — young and old, strong and weak, boy and girl — still in death I In every posture too— over, across, arm on each other, half recumbent, wholly so, on their backs ^i^oe downward, and some upon their sides, head on arm as if quie.,./ 3leei>ing. Many wer j lashed to pieces of spars ; others clung to fragments of the debris, by means of which they had, in their terrible struggle for life, hoped to ride safely on the surf- crested rollers ashore. Sailors in flannel shirts and dreadnoughts, lay beside little children in their night-dresses ; semi-nude mothers near the latter told how " faithful even to death '' they had striven to save their offspring ; while stalwart men, stiff, stark and cold, slept upon the shore, beneath the pitying gaze of strangers, who had come too late to help them. Faces were discolored and bruised limbs broken in many, and yet there were those who seemed to have glided from sleep to its eldest sister death. It was an awful array of the tempest's victims. Steam tugs and the Delta came down from Halifax, and took the survivors to that city, where they were received and treated with great kindness. The steamer Falmouth was afterward chartered, and conveyed the survivors to Portland, whence they were taken on a Pullman train to Boston, where they were entertained and cared for in Faneuil Hall. On Saturday evening, many of them left, by the Old Colony and Newport, for New York. The investigation ordered by the Dominion Government was begun on Saturday, in thu Custom House at Halifax, before the Collector, E. M. McDonald. The Captain, chief officer, and others, testified mainly in accordance with the foregoing statements. From their sworn testimony it would appear that 13 saloon passengers had been saved, 20 lost; 416 steerage passengers saved, 627 steer- age and crew lost; totals, 429 sayed, 547 lost. John Hanley, a boy who was pushed through a window by a man^ was the only youth rescued, AU women and children perished. , Id QuARTEB-MASTBft Mr. PubDT FIRST TO GET ASBORB. Wm. Purdy, Quarter-master :—" Was the first that attempted to swim ashore. I swam on shore. I landed on the rocks. I traversed from rock to rock, falling sometimes from sheer exhaus- tion. I found the signal-post, a place where the ffshermen have to look out and signalise to the boats, and I then called out for help. Two old men and a boy came to our assistance, and I went to the house with them and procured a line, and retraced my steps to the beach, ,.-here I saw a lot of passengers and crew upon the rock. Speakman, the Quarter-Master, swam towards me with a line from tha rock, and I hove my linp and caught him, and pulled ashore. As soon as I had dow so, we hauled in the line which he had from the rock, and made fact to the end of my line, so as to make it stronger. As soon as I got the line made fast, I told those who were on the rock to come ashore one by one, as I would. The first man saved in this way I do not know, but the second one was Mr. Biady, the third officer. I saved in this man- ner about 70, as near as I remember. In some instances, as the line was some distance overhead, and the person too exhausted, I had to reach down and pnll them up , some I had to go into the water for, which wbp lat of my depth, by a line fastened around my waist. In this manner the two old men would drag me and the man I rescued ashore. I remained, there from 4 o'clock till 9, when I fell down through exhai^stion. One of the stewards and somebody else relieved me, and I was carried away to a house where I was kindly cared for. The chief-steward, and another man that threw his arms around the steward's neck when coming ashore on the rope, were drowned at my feet. This statement is corroborated by that of the Quarter-master. a 14 Tot STBimoM ^^ Lady Headf" ^^ DeltHf^' and « Goliahy" GO TO THB Wreck. Early this morning, the Dominion Government steamer Lady Jleadf Captain Watson ; the Cunard steamer Deltas Captain Shaw ; and the steam-tug Goliahj Captain Jones, left the city for the scene of the wreck of the White Star steamer Atlantic^ at Prospect, to render such assistance as they could. The Lady Head had on board a number of Custom-house officials, and the Velta^s party included several newspaper reporters. The stait was made about three o'clock, so that the steamers might reach the scene immediately after dayMght. As the morning broke, the steamers approached Prospect, and those on board quickly learned the whereabouts of the ill-fated Atlantic^ from the presence around her of a large fleet of fishing schooners and small boats. The locality is one that a mariner would be disposed to give a wide berth to, if possible, the shore being a succession of large beds of rock, with dangerous shoals running out for some distance, while the bay is studded with innumerable islands, large and small, all of solid rock, with scarcely a sign of vegetation or soil, or anything that grows ; yet frowning and dangerous as the place was, there was grandeur and beauty in the scene on this bright morninsr, when the angry waves were beating against the rocks, and enveloping^he shore almost continually in clouds of glittering spray ; but the terrible story of the shipwreck absorbed too much of the attention of those on board the relieving steamers to allow them to spend many minutes in admiring the beauties of nature. The business of the vessels was to get on board the passengers and others who had been saved from the wreck and put on shore. ^ 15 \ :. r. the passengers below. Witness here produced another \, 24 plftBi showing the position of |;h0 companion-way leading to the deck, of which many passengers availed themselves, in going to the deck. Daring the time that I was on watch, she may have been going faster at times than at others ; but the speed was pretty uniform. I do not recollect what the speed was before we bore up ; but it was increased after that. I do not know what the speed was when the vessel struck. The captain did all that any man could possibly do to save life. I could distinctly see and hear him from the rook exerting himself. John Brown, fourth officer of the MlantiCj testified : — T joined the ship at Liverpool on the previous voyage. The captain, about one o'clock on Monday, directed me to alter the course to N, 24 E. for Halifax. At the time we were running seven knots. The coal was increased afterwards, and at four o'clock the speed was eleven knots per hour. I then went below and remained till six, when I again came on deck. The course and speed were the same. At eight o'clock I again went below and remained till twelve. The captain and first officer were on deck when I returned. The third officer told me the distance to Sambro light was forty-eight miles* Between one o'clock in the day and midnight the fhip ran 122 miles. At midnight she was running nine knots per hour. I have the log. The wind was W. N. W. with little swell. The leads were all on the bridge ready for sounding. We could have sounded in an instant. Between half-past one and the time the ship struck I was -on the saloon deck, about ten feet below the bridge. Two quartermasters, one at the wheel, were on deck at^ the same time ; the captain's boy came up with a cup of cocoa at three o'clock. I told the boy not to call the captain till three o'clock, and after- wards the second officer told him that he would call the captain. The second mate was on the bridge. The night was cloudy, with ^ere and there a peeping star, and ^ot thick. Before I left the is is. deck, I went to the weather side, and shading iny eyes with thf hands, looked for the light ; but did not see it or anything except 'the open sea. It was about half an hour from the time I left the deck till the Ship struck. Did not let the boy go to call the captain, because I knew the ship had not run anything like her distance, forty-eight tiiles. All the officers knew that we were running in to make the shore. No one in my hearing told the second officer that the distance had been run. One of the quarter- masters asked me if he should go to the maiif-yard to look for land. I told him It was too soon. I can only account for this decrease of speed from eleven to nine knots, in that they made a clearing of the bunkers below, or that the coal was of a poorer quality. One of the quartermasters was on the starboard side. The second officer was on the larboard side. I did not hear the roll of the sea on the shore, probably because of the noise of the engines. I left ■ the wreck about nine o'clock on Tuesday, and have not been there since. We must have been a good mile from Pennant Point whe!i we ran in, but I neither saw the breakers nor heard the roll. Was in the steerage at the time. I had not looked at the chart and did not know the coast. I have been at sea ten years, and an officer three years. To my knowledge nothing was done to prevent passengers coming on deck. The captain did everything he could to save life, and was much exhausted when he reached the shore* None of the officers spoke of heaving leads or stopping the ship. William HoqaiT) a steerage passenger^ examined by Mt. Shannoti, testified : — '< I wetit to bed on the night of the disaster at nine o'clock, and remained there till five bells-^half past two o'clock^ I went to the upper deck, and fot a while walked up and down near the engine roomi The night vroB extremely cold, but the weather was better than it had been before. I heardihe watch call out three o'clocki an4 then went below. Before I did so I looked out; i^ was partly for that reason I came on deck. I looked out on the side I afterwards found to be nearest the land. The sea was light. I neither saw no heard anything to indicate the close proximity of land. Almost immediately after I laid down for the second timej I heard a fearful crash. The windows instantly opened. I looked out through a port-hole and saw the rock. My companion and myself made our way to the second deck. I do not know how we got up, because the concussion caused by the shock, had knocked the companion ladder away. Some of the passengers below called out, * the doors are closed,' but I think they had in their hurry missed the place where the doors were. I found it very hard to get out. I positively believe that a great many more would have been saved had the means of exit been more ample. There is, I think, only room for one to get out at a' time. I went to the side of the vessel nearest the land, and reached the engine room by the time the steam began to go off. I caught a rope. The ship turned over gradually and then sank. All who had not a hold of a rope or the rail went down instantly. I stopped on the ship till the boats came and took me off. The officers and crew all acted as good men would under the circumstances." X 27 FOR THOSE AT SEA. -:"-^\ *!• tu- ■rhfff^;' I'.f, Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm ha„a bound the restless wave ; Who bid'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep ; hear us, when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea. Christ 1 whose voice the waters heard, • And hushed their raging at Thy word ; Who walkedst on the foaming deep, And calm amidst its rage did sleep ; O hear us, when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea. Most Holy Spirit, who didst brood Upon the chaos, dark and rude. And bid its angry tumult cease. And give, for wild confusion, peace ; hear us, when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea. Trinity of love and power. Our brethren shield in danger's hour : From rock and tempest, fire and foe, Protect them, whereso'er they go ; Thus evermore shall rise to Thee Glad hymns of praise, from land and se». 28 THE GREAT WBECKS OP THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The dreadful shipwreck that has just occurred on the coast of Koya Scotia, resulting in the loss of hundreds of lives, is not on a parallel with any like disaster of this century. The following list of great wrecks will be interesting at this time :~> In February, 1805, the Abergavenny was lost on the Bill of Port- land ; 300 perished. In October, same year, the Ameas was lost off Newfoundland ; 340 perished. December, 1805, the Aurora foundered on the Goodwin Sands ; 300 lives lost, October, 1806, the Athenian lost near Tunis ; 347 perished, February, 1807, the Ajax was burned off Teredos : 250 lost. December, 1810, Minotaur lost on the Haak Bank ; 360 perished. December, 1811, Saldanha lost on the Irish coast ; 300 perished. December, 1812, the St. George, Defence, and Hero, lost on the coast of Jutland ; 2,000 perished. January, 1816, Seahorse lost near Tramore Bay ; 365 soldiers of the 59th regiment perished. August, 1831, Lady Sherbroke, lost near Cape Bay; 273 perished. August, 1833, Amphitrite, filled with female convicts, lost on Boulogne Sands ; all lost. November, 1838, Protector; 178 perished. March, 1841, the President, of New York, lost in a gale ; never heard from. December, 1847, the Avenger, lost on the Coast of Africa ; 200 perished, 29 April, 1867, the Ezmonth, looxmd for Quebec, lost, with 240 drowned. March, 1850, Royal Adelaide, lost on the Tongue Sands, off Margate ; over 400 perished. February, 1852, the Birkenhead, troopship, lost on the coast of South Africa ; 454 perished. February, 1853, the Independence, lost on the coat of California, 140 persons drowned or burned to death. September, 1853, the Annie Jane, lost west of Scotland ; 384 lives lost. January, 1853, the T^ayleur, lost with 380 persons. April, 1854, the Favourite, lost in a collision; 201 drowned. May, 185 the Lady Nugent, lost in a )iurricane, with 400 persons. September, 1854, the mail steamer Arctic, lost off Newfound- land. In the same year the City of Glasgow disappeared, with all on board. January, 1856, the Collins steamer Pacific disappeared with all on board. Never since heard of. 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