MARITIME MISHAPS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 93, 19 April 1912, Page 2

MARITIME MISHAPS.

FORM JCll GREAT SHIPWRECKS. The following arc some of the greatest .British shipwrecks since the year 1800: I Lives Year. lost. IBUU—Ounce, transport, on Trefus'is Point ... 369 1800 —Queen Charlotte, burnt ... 073 1805—Eneas, transport, off Newfonmilaml ... ... 310 1805—(Aurora, transport, on Goodwtin Sands ... ... 300 1800—Athenian, . warship, near Tunis ... ... ... 31 1 1807—Ajax, warship, oil ten eclos Island ... ... ... -50 1810— Minotaur, Warship, on Hook Bank ... ... 360 1811 — Saldan'ha, frigate, off Iri li Coast ... ... 30') —St. Ceorge, Defence, and Hero, warships, on coast of Jutland (three wrecks) ... 2000 1,816 —Seahorse, transport, near Tramore Bay ... 365 1831—Sherbrooke, near Cape i) 07 ( J 1017—Exmonth, emigrant ship, from Londonderry to Quehee, about ... ... ••• 210 1850— Royal Adelaide, steamer, off Margate ... ... ••• -166 1852 Birkenhead, troopship, off Simon’s Bay ... ••• • 75 1 1853 — Annie Jane, emigrant ship, on the Barra Is .Led ... 3-18 —Taylenr, emigrant ship, north of Howth ... ... 381: 1851 — Lady Nugcn.it, troopship, foundered in, hurricane ~.. UK. 1858— Austria, emigrant .ship, , burnt : n Atlantic ... ... L 0 1859 Royal Charter, steamer, on Anglesey .coast ... ••• 1-16 1863-—Orpheus, warship, on Manaliau bar ... ... ••• 330 .—Anglo-Saxon, mail steamer, off Newfoundland ... ... 23 1 1872—North fleet, off Dungoness 300 187-I—Co spat rick, emigrant ship, burnt on her way to New Zealand . ... ... 370 1876—Great Queensland, supposed to have exploded near JPiinisterre ... ••• ••• 569 1878 —Enrydice, warship, near Isle of Wight ... ... ... 300 1878—Princess Alice, near Woolwich ... ••• 350 >IBB1—Ta ra ru a, Waip apa .Point, New Zealand ... 130 1886—K a plaid a, emigrant ship, off' Brazil ... ... 290 1892—Naindiow, off Cupchi Point, China ... 509 1891—Wairarapa, Great Barrier Island ... 1 ... ... 12 ; > 1906—livrolimont, steanier, Block Li]and Sound 1 ' 200 1909—AVuiatah, steameA,' off African ’ 1 coast . 1 1 C..' ... 300 The folo/Wi’ng are some of the greaixist disasters to foreign vessels during recent years:— 1851—-Areticj ■ TI.S. mail steamer, off Newfoundland ... 300 1875—Linda, American barque, elf Burfleur ... 363 —Schiller, Hamburg mailsteamer vJ. f''::... ... 331 1878— Grosser Kurfnrst, German 'V/arsliip 300 1883—Cimibria, Hamburg steamer, off coast of Holland ... 154 1895—Rcina.Rogeate, Spanish, cruiser, off Cape Trafalgar ... 100 1898—La Bourgbync, French liner, off Novia Sfc'otia 515 190! —General Slocum, Now York excursion steamer, burnt 10011