THE LARGO BAY COLLISION.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7268, 26 March 1889, Page 5

THE LARGO BAY COLLISION.

i ' ——————— LOSS OF A STEAMER AND ALL HANDS. Telegrams from Portsmouth state that during a blinding snowstorm off Beachy Head on Monday night, February 4th, a terrible collision occurred between the British barque Largo Bay, on her passage from London to Auckland, New Zealand, with a general cargo, and a large fourmasted steamer, name unknown. The latter sank almost immediately, and it is fearedthatallonboardhaveperished. From her appearance she was judged to have been a passenger steamer, and it was conjectured that she must have carried more than a hundred souls. An apprentice boy on board the .Largo Bay was killed by a falling mast, and the vessel herself was greatly damaged. Lloyd's reported on Thursday, February 7th:—" There is too much reason to fear that the steamer supposed to have been sunk with ail hands by collision on Monday night off Beachy Head with the barque Largo Bay, was one of the fine steamers belonging to the Glen Line fleet. The Glencoe, of this line, left Liverpool on the 2nd inst, bound for London (light), She was reported from Lloyd's signal station at Portland Bill as having passed that place at 1 p.m. on Monday, and had all been well she should havearrived in the river on Tuesday night; but since she was reported from Lloyd's signal station at Portland Bill no further information has been received of her. The collision occurred off Beachy Head at 10.30 p.__. on Monday, and this would be about the time at which the Glencoe would have been in that position. The Glencoe is a steamer of nearly 3000 tons gross, and is of the highest class. She had on board a crew of fifty-four hands, all told, but fortunately there were n_» passengers on board;" Messrs McGregor, Gow, and Co. write that they have little doubt but that the vessel sank on Monday night last was their steamship Glencoe, belonging to the Glen Line of steamers. Her commander was Captain McKinlay. As much as _otes was paid in London on Wednesday for reinsurance. The Glencoe was a threemasted screw steamer.