Marine Casualties

Evening Star, Issue 8613, 5 September 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

Marine Casualties

Intelligence was received in London on July 6 that a large steamer had been sunk off Dover, and later the steamship Kinloch landed at Gravesend a part of the crew of the sunken vessel, which proved to be the Dunholme, bound from Middlesborougb to Rio Janeiro, The Dunholme sank at three o’clock in the morning, two minutes after collision with the Kinloch. Seventeen persons on board at the time of colliding are missing. The captain, mate, two sailors, and three firemen are saved. They state that the Dunholme was struck by the Kinloch in a thick fog. There was no time to lower the boats, but the Kinloch assisted them as much as possible. The s.s. Servia, from New York for Queenstown, returned to port July 7, having broken the crackpiu of the highpressure engine. Prince George of Greece was among the passengers.

The Nicaraguan barque Don Carlos, from Iquique, Chili, loaded with nitrate, grounded at the Heads, while attempting to enter the port of San Francisco, July 10, The captain refused a pilot and missed the channel. She was hauled from her perilous position by two tug boats aud towed into port, where she will be docked. Damage, including towage charges, 14,000d01, On June 27, the American ship Palestine, coal laden, from Tacoma, Washington, struck the outer edge of the bar, after refusing a tug boat, but was afterwards constrained to accept its services when too lata. After being towed a m<le and a-balf from the place of striking, the Palestine sank in fourteen fathoms and a-balf, and was a total loss.

The schooner Publico Belle, lumber laden, was wrecked off the coast of Newfoundland on Thursday, July 16. She had a number of women passengers on board, three of whom, besides the captain aud crew, were drowned in an attenpt ta reach the land.

Forty of the crew of the wrecked British ship New York arrived at Liverpool on July 19. The New York sailed from Swansea on February 6, coal laden, for San Francisco, aud was wrecked at New Year Island, in the Pacific, ou April 20, and one of the crew drowned. The Governor of the group, to whom the wrecked men applied for assistance, not only refused to g ve them clothing, but compelled them while barefooted to drag lumber over the snow. After five weeks of this hardship they escaped to Goshia, and thence to Sandy Point, where tho British Gonsal sent them Home.

The German steamer Dresden, from Bremen to Baltimore, with 800 emigrants on board, collided on July 18 with the brigantine Annie Harris, off Star Point. The brigantine sank immediately, and four of her crew were drowned. The steamer held on her course.

A report reached Quebec on July 20, from South-west Point, Anticosti, that the steamer Girce, from Glasgow to Montreal, was ashore and in a very bad position. Most of the crew were saved,