LIVERPOOL SHIPPING

LIVERPOOL MERCURY 11th Jan 1908

Steamer IPERATIZ of Para from England to Brazil foundered off Ushant crew picked up and landed at Barest

At Gravesend the steamer AURICULA of London from Antwerp collided with the barque CORY for Liverpool for Connahs Quay. The latter vessel foundered and the cook was killed. The rest of the crew landed at Gravesend while the AURICULA proceeded to London

The Schooner E.C.T of Padstow with scrap iron for Belfast to Llanelly struck Cefn Sidan Sands in Carmarthan Bay on Monday and became a total wreck . Crew of 5 including the Capt CROKER took to their boats and got ashore on Pembrey beach.

7 Sailors believed total survivors of the crew of 16 of the Norwegian bargue GERMANIC arrived in New York aboard the oil tank steamer HOTHAM NEWTON they were rescued in mid Atlantic Dec 17th eight days after the vessel was abandoned. They were all suffering from extreme exposure another boat with 8 men has not been found the Capt stayed with the vessel and went down with the ship

On Wednesday 10 miles north of Padstow Cornwall large ship demasted found to be the Iron bargue EUROPE 1727 Tons of Oporto bound for Newport. Steam Lifeboat HELEN POOLE and Surfboat EDMUND HARVEY put out in a fierce gale. Steamer EVERETT stood by taking off 13 crew. Lifeboats took off 6 men and Capt, boy named PETICAS drowned

Full rigged ship ATLAS arrived in San Francisco christmas eve terminating the voyage from Baltimore made tragic by the loss of 3 crew, the sinking off Cape Horn of the Norwegian Barque VIKING and the drowning of the latters Capt and his wife also the mutiny of the crew of the ATLAS. The collision occurred at night, the VIKING a new vessel from Hamburg for Callao went down so rapidly that the 13 crew barely had time to clamber aboard the ALTAS when the vessel foundered taking down Capt PETERSEN and his wife. Previous to the collision, Charles NOLAN, John HOOK and J. SCHUMACHER of the ATLAS fell from the jibbcom and drowned. Before reaching San Francisco the crew mutinied owing to trouble with an officer.

Schooners LIZZIE R. WILCE 3 masted Swansea to St Malo and MARY BARROW of Barrow driven ashore at St Ives crews rescued by lifeboat

Steamer NELLIE WISE of London drifted on the sands at Hartlepool on Wednesday night 15 crew rescued by rocket apparatus but 2nd mate NEWLAND of South Sheilds drowned

4 survivors of a crew of 7 of the Brigantine FANNY of Jersey bound from Santos Brazil to Halifax Nova Scotia were landed at Milford Haven told of terrible suffering they were off Halifax but for days could not make for harbour, Capt LESNEUR, Francis MISSION Boatswain, Edward LONGELIER Able bodied seaman died from exhaustion, survivors reduced to biscuits and salt fish and were also exhausted when picked up

Practically the last has been heard of the ex Allan Liner BAVARIAN which went ashore in the St Lawrence November 1905 after many attempts to refloat her she was declared a total wreck and sold by the underwriters to an American salvage cindicate for £12,000.

LIVERPOOL MERCURY 25th Jan 1908

SHIPPING

Inquiries into the steamer NEPTUNE, Messers T. J. SHARPE and Co Fenwick St, showed that no news had been heard of the vessel. All hope is abandoned. She left Garston on New Years day for Par Cornwall with a cargo of coal. Capt JUNOR had engaged a new crew, the old crew having left the ship on reaching Garston. It would be impossible to say who was on board apart from the Engineers as the Master signed his crew aboard. The steamer ABERCRAIG which left the same day arrived at Fowey 3 days later and reported a very stormy passage with a gale force wind raging on leaving the Mersey.

The Steamer AMSTERDAM From Horwich belonging to the Great Easter Railway Co collided in dense fog on Wednesday morning off the Hook of Holland with the British Steamer AXMINSTER bound from New York to Rotterdam. 65 passengers of the Amsterdam were taken off by the boats of the Axminster and landed safely at Hook. One boat is missing.

The WOERMANN Liner ASCAN WOERMANN outward to West Africa was totally wrecked on Grand Bassa Rocks, crew saved and returning to Hamburg with Company steamer LUCIE WOERMANN

Greek steamer EPRIUS from Sulina to Antwerp loaded and the Red Star Liner FINLAND from New York to Antwerp in collision on Monday off Terneuze former vessel sank all on board saved and landed at Flushing, FINLAND proceeded undamaged.

Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the Hull trawler SHAKESPEARE off the Orkney Islands with 4 crew due to default of the Skipper, certificate suspended for 6mths refusal of Second hand‘s certificate.

Liverpool Mercury 1st Feb, 1908

Shipping

15 crew of the Nova Scotia sealing schooner BADEN POWELL were landed at Liverpool on Monday by the Pacific Steam Navigation Co steamer ORISSA.

In Sept last the schooner left Halifax for the sealing grounds on the South Shetland Islands. After carrying out operations there for some time, a gale sprung and caused the crew to run for shelter on one of the islands. The wind increased and the vessel lost its anchor. The crew launched their boat and safely reached the shore. The schooner became a total wreck. The men did not remain on the island but rowed their boat to the Falkland Islands. All but four crew, who, preferred to remain were sent by schooner to Port Stanley, from there they proceeded to Monte Video and joined the ORISSA. They were cared for by the Shipwrecked Mariners Society and forwarded to their homes in Nova Scotia.

A Boston cablegram reports the British barquentine SUNBEAM has been abandoned at sea. All aboard were saved and landed by the steamer CANADIAN. The CANADIAN is one of the Leyland Line boats. The SUNBEAM belongs to St Johns N.F and was built at Bridport in 1876.

The large steamer HUDDERSFIELD, laden with coal, from Cardiff was driven ashore about 4 miles west of Clovelly, 8 crew got ashore in their boat, and the lifeboat rescued the remaining 12. The HUDDERSFIELD, a steel vessel, belonging to Field Lane Ltd of Cardiff was built in Sunderland in 1900, she is 2,055 tons gross and is likely to become a total wreck.

On a voyage from Liverpool to Ulverston, the coasting steamer GLADYS lost a large portion of her cargo and the mate received injuries to his ribs. The gale from the S.E, was so furious it was expected she would founder and she was run into Fleetwood Harbour to safety. Other steamers weatherbound at Fleetwood Harbour are, ISOBEL, STANLEY, BESSIE, HELVETIA and DUNELM.

The young man MC LAUGHLIN, 2nd mate on the barque DUNDONALD, wrecked at the Auckland Islands in March last year has returned to his home in Old Kirkpatrick, Dumbartonshire. The whole crew was given up as lost but 16 of 26 reached a deserted island where they remained for several months enduring great hardship till they were rescued. Turf huts were built as shelter from the extreme cold, their clothes reduced to rags. MC LAUGHLIN built a raft out of wreckage enabling them to catch fish – birds up to then, their only sustenance – they made excursions in the open sea hoping to find a vessel. At last they were found by a passing ship going by way of New Zealand and Australia, the survivors have arrived home.

The KRONPRINZESSIN CECILE brought to Plymouth details of the adventures of the crew of the British steamer TOLLESBY, which was wrecked off Cape Race The vessel struck a submerged ledge , the crew stayed on the vessel for 4 hrs, firing guns and sending up rockets, their signals going unnoticed, before nightfall heavy seas swept everything moveable over board, and eventually the ship’s back was broken. No sooner were the boats launched when they were smashed to pieces. The crew made a raft and landed at the foot of cliffs, one, crew member scaled the cliff and hauled three more crew up. The remainder obliged to stay below, a fir they built soon went extinguished by the rising tide. Most of the men were frost bitten and weak with hunger. Not until morning were their comrades able to hoist them up the cliff.

Our Sheilds correspondent telegraphs – All hope has been abandoned of the safety of the Spanish steamer LAURAK BAT, 2,183 Tons, bound from Sheilds to St Nazaire, with coal, the vessel carried a crew of 25, and also on board were 2 of the officer’s wives. She is believed to be the vessel seen in the English Channel, 2 days after leaving the Tyne labouring with a bad list in a terrible storm. She subsequently disappeared.

The tug BACILIAN COOK, of Cardiff was run down and sunk by the steamer FLESWICK, in the Bristol Channel at Avon Mouth on Tuesday. The crew, were saved.

The Milford Haven trawler DEVON which left the fishing grounds on Jan 2nd is missing, the sailing trawler DAYSPRING sighted her boat on the 11th inst, 63 miles N by E of the Longships, badly stove in.

The Ramsey lifeboat was called out on Tues night to help the schooner GUIDING STAR, of Runcorn which was dragging her anchor about 4 miles from shore. They brought the crew consisting of Capt TRIMBLE, Alfred CATARELL [Mate] and two men ashore in an exhausted state.

As the steamer INNISFALLIN belonging to the Cork Steamboat Co was approaching the Liverpool Landing stage on Weds afternoon to discharge her cattle, she was carried against the stage by the strong flood tide. Her bows as well as the stage structure sustained damage, but the INNISFALLIN was able to take her berth and discharge her cargo.

A storm of great fury swept over the Irish Sea on Sunday and the previous night. The cross channel Irish mail and express passenger steamers encountered heavy weather with huge waves running. The French Barque ORLEANS was towed into Falmouth by the Liverpool steamer ISTAR on Sunday in a dismasted state. The mainmast having fell through the deck in the gale.

A Port Said despatch on Monday – “Hurricane blowing all over the canal since Jan 26th, Telegraphic communications interrupted, cable broken. GOLMPER, Dutch steamer aground in canal, and obstructs traffic section Kabrat.

A Greek schooner wrecked and totally lost at Alexandria. All on board saved. A number of lighters and Nile boats sunk in the harbour.

Passengers of the Ostend Mail Packet, PRINCESS HENRIETTE had an exciting experience in the North Sea on Monday morning during a heavy gale. They left Ostend at Midnight to reach Dover at 4am, at 6am a message was received at Dover that shortly after leaving they encountered heavy seas, and an accident happened to one of her paddle wheels, she was stopped and towed back to Ostend.

The missing passengers of the railway steamer AMSTERDAM were found and landed on the Hook on Friday. They endured no hardship. The tug GOUWZEE, which put out again to search in the thick fog, hailed several fog bound vessels without learning news of the missing boat, and was turning home when a glimpse at the Norwegian steamer SONGA, lying abandoned caught the skippers eye, he notice a large number of people on the deck too many for such a sized vessel, and drew alongside. Happily finding the missing boatload. The story of the BERLIN is so vividly remembered, there was immense relief at the Hook, and throughout London when the good news was made known.

Liverpool Mercury Feb 8th 1908

Shipping snippets

Missing

The Dundee steamer NEPTUNE which sailed from Garston for Par, Cornwall on the 1st January and the 4 masted American ship ARTHUR SEWALL which sailed from Philadelphia for Seatlle and Vancouver on March 30th last are posted as missing, all hope of their safety is abandoned.

The KIRKHAM ABBEY, new steamer to be launched at Hull, but owing to frost the fallow [ ? tallow] had solidified and the vessel could not move, she was only christened.

Honolulu

United States ship, ECLIPSE foundered at sea on the 11th January, 3 crew are dead, the Captain and remainder of the crew reached Honolulu.

The Liverpool Salvage Asst received a message from their officer trying to save the Elder Dempster steamer SANSU, ashore on the Sierra Leone coast, informing them that the vessel was embedded in sand bottom up, masts and funnels crushed, no further salvage of cargo is possible.

On Monday evening signals of distress were seen at New Brighton in the vicinity of the Crosby Lightship, the New Brighton lifeboat was launched, it was found the brigantine COLORADO of Wicklow, a vessel engaged in the coasting trade, had gone ashore at Taylor’s bank. The crew managed to lower a boat and reached the Crosby Lightship safely, where they stayed till the following day. The COLORADO was going to pieces on the bank.

A story of shipwreck and 10 deaths from yellow fever

Related by the survivors of the 4 masted barque GUNFORD of Glasgow on their arrival at Southampton on Monday from Brazil in the Royal Mail steamer ARAGUAYA. The GUNFORD left Hamburg for California on Dec 18th with a compliment of 26 men, all went well till the trade winds and currents were encountered, which carried her off course, when she struck on sand hills and sank. The crew managed to scramble ashore 170 miles from Pernambuco. The Captain procured a pony and rode to Pernambuco, he was refused assistance for the others, some of the men contracted fever, others tried to walk to Pernambuco. But without water were compelled to return exhausted. The survivors were eventually picked up by the Captain of a coasting steamer, who happened to be an Englishman, who conveyed them to Pernambuco.

Liverpool Echo 29^th Sept 1908

Wreck of the Loch Finlas

List of crew

Supposed loss of 14 lives

Lost off the coast of Tasmania, on Sunday only 4 lives of those on board known to be saved.

Crew supposed to be on board the vessel on her arrival at Port Pirie, from Hamburg 3^rd, August

A. J. LONNEN, master,  46 Madeline St, Liverpool

P. A. LOGAN, 1^st mate, 11 Agincourt Ave, Belfast

R. H. RODGERS 2^nd mate 180 Manegra Rd, Forest Gate, London

G. PATERSON, Steward, 51 Windsor Rd, Liverpool

J. MAHER, Cook, 110 Upper Canning St, Belfast

E. REEDER, Carpenter, Eppendorfer, Krankenshaw, Pavillion 14, Hamburg

A.B, s, G. KARISSON, S. SOLBERG, O SVENSON, W. SEAGOR, H. PETERSON, A. JURISON, C. ORLANSON, A. REANTI, Apprentices, R. ZACHRISON, L. PARKER, C. W. LUSHINGTON, J. V. BRAGA.

The owners have cabled out to Lloyds for the names of those saved, there may have been some changes on the part of the AB,s when the vessel left for Calliao

Saved

E. REEDER, Carpenter, G. KARLSSON, A.B, J. V. BRAGA, Apprentice, a man called ALGRAN.

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