Shipwrecks 1882

Liverpool Journal, 7th Jan 1882

Information received at Lloyds states the British ship PARISIAN, 1,384 tons, is given up as lost with all hands, 35 in number, she left from the Bay of San Francisco on the 19th, ? last for Liverpool and was due here in October last. She has never been seen since she sailed. She had on board a cargo of wheat and flour.

Liverpool Journal 14th January 1882,

The schooner ELIZABETH belonging to Tobermory was wrecked on the rocks at Arisaig on Thurs, her crew of 3 men drowned.

Lloyd’s telegram from Calmar reports the new mail steamer MALMOCHUS sank on Tues in deep water in Calmar Sound while sailing on her trial from Oscarshamn, 15 crew and passengers drowned.

Board of trade inquiry yesterday.

Concerning the foundering of the steamship CALLIOPE concluded at Cardiff.

CALLIOPE, 1,062 tons reg, left Odessa on 4th Oct last with grain for Bremerhaven, on 22nd Oct she foundered near Portugal, 21 hands and 6 passengers being lost. The only survivor, a seaman, being afloat on top of a chart-house for 4 days before being picked up. – vessel was over-laden, loss due to shifting of cargo there being no shifting boards to keep the grain in place.

The brigantine KEZIA HARRISON, was driven ashore at Helensburg on Saturday and became a total wreck, all crew saved

Information received at Dundee on Monday, the steamer LOCH AWE, with coals from Burntisland, foundered during a gale on Friday, crew saved and landed at Dundee.

The mail steamer DUART CASTLE which arrived in Table Bay on the 17th ult, reports experiencing terrible weather during the passage from England, the Capt never left the bridge for four days and nights after leaving Dartmouth. Serious damage was done on board through the heavy seas. The men were washed helplessly around the deck and for some time the Chief officer was missing, he was eventually found amongst the wreckage fatally injured. When picked up his last words were, “Go at it again men.” Mr WALLACE was a well known and respected officer of the fleet, and had a large number of friends in South Africa. The carpenter also badly injured was landed at Madeira, but little hope was entertained of his recovery.

The British steamer OXENHOLME from Liverpool arrived at New Orleans with cargo on fire. The cargo not bad coming out, no salvage claimed.

A telegram at Dundee from Newfoundland reports the total loss of the sealer LION of Greenock, with all hands, while on a voyage from Greenock to St John’s. She arrived home in the autumn to receive new machinery. She was on the outward voyage when overtaken by a storm off the Newfoundland coast. The crew believed to be 20 men.

Liverpool Journal 21st January 1882

Shipping snippets

Casualties

ABBOTSFORD of Leith which grounded 2 miles off Burntisland was got off by tugs undamaged and proceeded to Dunkirk.

BALTZAIR Von PLATEN, Swedish steamer, struck on rocks 30 miles off Vofsen and had rudder carried away.

COBDEN of Middlesborough grounded on Halsboro Sands has been assisted off by boatsmen and tugs after jettisoning 300 tons of cargo, she made no water. Now in Great Yarmouth will proceed when the fog clears, agreement made for the services rendered to tugs and boatmen.

EMILIE from Gothenberg to Natal spoken of on 20th Nov, lat 7 N, long 24 W, dismasted.

E. A. BIRD of and from Belfast for Ayr, collided with the brig SHAMROCK, from Ayr for Drogheda, vessels received damage on the bows.

ERWOOD from Christiania at Gravesend reports being in a collision with a three-masted schooner on 11th inst.

GERMAN EMPIRE of West Hartlepool grounded off Finkenwaeder, floated yesterday but is detained in dense fog.

LISBONENSE from Liverpool grounded during the night on the 25th ult while proceeding up the Amazon, assisted off on the 26th after discharging part of the cargo onto lighters. In getting off she sank one of the barges

MISTLEY HALL from Calcutta while docking in the Du? Was ordered into the stream again due to insufficient water, she grounded on a hard bank, but after was got off and docked.

NAPIER from Portland Or for Queenstown [wheat] in Valparasio damaged in severe gale.

VANDYCK from Liverpool for New York put into B? head after collision with the barque CONC?

WALEDMAR from Calais for Newport and the steamer THOMAS WILSON from Cardiff for Alexandria in a collision near the Longslips, both damaged, former put into Falmouth, latter into Plymouth.

Judgement was given at St George’s Hall in the Board of Trade inquiry on the stranding of the British steamer HENRY SCHOLFIELD near St Bees Head on the 24th Ult.

By Mr RAFFLES, Capt BEAZLEY and MURDOCH, Nautical assessors.

Court considered that when the master got cross bearings off the Skerries and South Stack lights, he steered too easterly a course and did not make due and proper allowance for the tide. He was to some extent misled by the LAURA ETHEL, stranded on the coast a few hours previously, by which he took to be trawler lights – master to blame.

Shipwrecks 1885

Shipwrecks 1885

Liverpool Mercury March 12th 1885

Feared loss of a Liverpool steamer and 28 lives

It is now feared that the steamer CONISTON has been lost with all on board, number some 28 hands, she left Liverpool last Christmas Eve for New York, and has not been heard of since. She was in ballast, and was in command of Captain Samuel OWEN, she ought to have arrived at her destination at the latest 20 days after leaving the Mersey, but it is now two and a half months since she sailed. 28 hands signed to proceed in the vessel, of these 8 neglected to join, their places supplied by substitutes, but it appears the captain of the vessel did not furnish the Sailor's Home authorities with names of the latter.

The following are the names and former places of residence of the 20 men who were known to have sailed in the steamer :- Samuel OWEN, master, Driffield, S. ANDERSON, mate, Canonbury, W. L. RANDERSON, 2nd mate, Hull, Matthew DAVIDSON, carpenter, Glasgow, Harry GAVAN, boatswain, Mexico, Charles STENSEN, steward, Norway, John GUNDERSON, cook, Bergen, John HANLON, AB, Donegal, Harry LORENSON, AB, Hamburg, Matthias BERGH, AB, Drontheim, Charles JONES, AB, Liverpool, A. FOWLES, chief engineer, Wandsworth, Edward EVETT, 2nd engineer, Liverpool, Henry DAVIDSON, 3rd engineer, Gateshead, Charles FOWLER, donkeyman, Heligoland, George MURRAY, fireman, Liverpool, Thomas JOHNSON, fireman, Liverpool, James MARNEY, fireman, Liverpool, James DOYLE, fireman, Kingstown, Thomas DOMARLLE, engineer's steward, Liverpool.

The Coniston was a steamer of 1491 tons register, having been built at Newcastle in 1880. She was an iron screw vessel, owned by Messers W. MILBURN and Co, of London.

Clipper ship Janet Cowan

Serious apprehensions are entertained as to the safety of the large clipper ship Janet Cowan, which left Dundee for Liverpool in ballast on February 21st and has not since been heard of. She left 12hrs before the terrible storm which then raged for some days on the east coast. The Janet Cowan was in charge of a North Sea pilot and had a crew of 20 to 30 runners on board.

The wreck of the Neophyte

With the exception of the north easterly gale that prevailed on Sunday evening at Ramsey, and which resulted in the screw steamer Hyena being driven ashore as she was lying alongside the wrecked barque Neophyte, more settled weather has favoured the operations of the Liverpool Salvage Corps. The screw steamer Herbert left Ramsey for Liverpool on Monday with 245 bales of cotton and the screw steamer Annie on Tuesday evening with 573 bales. In addition to these numbers 350 bales have been carted from the Point of Ayr, and were yesterday morning lying on the quay at Ramsey awaiting shipment to Liverpool. Altogether over 1,200 bales, or above one third of the cargo, have been recovered from the wreck. The screw steamer Hyena lies high on shore, close to the Neophyte and cannot be floated until the tides rise.

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