The Atlantic Gales.

Hastings Standard, Issue 318, 10 May 1897, Page 4

The Atlantic Gales.

Home files contain accounts of shipping disasters which occurred in the Atlantic during the March galea. Many steam and sailing vessels were lost. The steamer Templemore, which left Liverpool for Baltimore on the 26th February, was towed back into the Mersey on the 23rd March. On the 2nd March heavy seas carried away her rudder, and she was tossed about hopelessly for fifteen days. The Ulstermore took her in tow, but after six days the hawser snapped, and a coil of it caught the master of the Templemore (Mr Simpson) and a seaman and tore both their legs off. They died soon afterwards. Four other men each bad both legs broken and were otherwise badly injured. The Allan liner Carthaginian brought to New York the crew of the steamer Rialto, which was abandoned on the sth March. On the morning of the 3rd, in a heavy sea, an explosion occurred in the forehold, blowing off heE hatches, killing one seaman, and injuring the chief mate. The hatches were battened down and the pumps started. The burning vessel was swept by the seas that dashed over her, her lifeboats being smashed, and the crew were expecting death when they were sighted by the Carthaginian, which stood by till early on the sth, when the weather became moderate enough to permit of the Allan liner's lifeboats taking off the Rialto's crew. Telegrams from New York state that the four survivors of the steamer St. Nazaire are Inspector Berri, of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique; Dr. Maire, the ship's doctor ; M. Stants, third engineer ; and M. Tajardo, a passenger. They were so near death when picked up that they had been unable to relieve the boat of the bodies of four companions who had previously succumbed. The missing, who, it is feared, must have perished, include Captain Jacqueneau, nine passengers, and 68 officers and crew. However, a telegram, dated New York, 21st March, says: " The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm 11., which arrived last evening reports having spoken the tramp steamer Yanariva on the banks of Newfoundland at midday of the 17th inst. Her signals were not clear, but were believed to mean that she had picked up 16 survivors of the wrecked steamer Vill de St. Nazaire. The Yanariva is from Newport News, bound for Glasgow, where she is due on the 31st." A steamer from New Orleans which has arrived at New York has found a lifeboat belonging to the Ville de St. Nazaire containing six dead bodies. The Racehorse, of Whitby, which sailed from Largo, Fifeshire, for West Hartlepool, with a cargo of potatoes, on 21st January ; the steamer Illira, of Trieste, which sailed from Newport News for Genoa via the Azores on the 18th January ; and the steamer Liberia, of Bergen, which sailed from Cardiff for Tarragona, with coal, on the 28th January, and have not since been heard of, were posted at Lloyd's on 24th March as missing. The steamship Editor, of the Harrison line, from Brazil to Liverpool with sugar and cotton, went ashore in a dense fog near Holyhead early on the 22nd March. The officers and crew took to the boats and all were saved. The ship is a total loss.