A TERRIBLE NIGHT.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 42, 17 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

A TERRIBLE NIGHT.

♦ The steamship Newcastle, belonging to Newcastle, arrived off Dover recently and landed Captain Hangan, with his chief and second mates, and a boy, being the survivors of the crew of the barque Ceylon, of Drammen, bound to Liverpool with floorboards. Their ship struck the Haisborough sandbank, and throughout the night the crew had a terrible experience. They lashed themselves to the mizzenmast, but during the early part of the night it was deemed advisable to cut away the mast to keep the ship from capsizing. The crew then crawled along the deck as best they could to the forecastle, and lashed themselves to the foremast. Duringthe night the crewburnt at frequent intervals large fires made of oakum and petroleum. Guns were also .fired as signals of distress, but no help came. Towards midday on the day following the ship parted right down the centre from stem to stern. After a huriied discussion the crew divided, the captain and the rest of the survivors getting along by the rail to the. after-part, where they lashed themselves to the deckhouse. The other six remained lashed on the forecastle. Soon afterwards the ship broke right across the centre, and the two portions were cast adrift. The stern portion floated away to sea, and was picked up by the steamer Newcastle, "When the survivors last saw their comrades the portion of the vessel on which they were was just breaking up, and the captain feared that they were lost. The crew were all Norwegians.