WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP—LOS OF NEARLY 400 LIVES.

Colonist, Volume VII, Issue 664, 8 March 1864, Page 2

WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP—LOS OF NEARLY 400 LIVES.

Telbgrams received in the city from Lloyd's agents at Nieu Diep, on the Dutch coast, communicate the brief particulars of one of the most dreadful shipwrecks during the late storm that has happened on this range of coast for many years past. The ill-fated ship was the Wilhelmsborg, Captain Kvoss, commander, built in 1853, and upwards of 1,200 tons burden. She left Hamburgh in the early part of last week for Australia, and is reported to have had nearly 400 emigrants on board—men, women, and children, Germans. She had also a cavgo of general merchandise. It would seem she had scarcely cleaved tho Elbe, before the awful gale of Thursday was encountered, and the wind blowing direct upon tho coast, the ship evidently was unable to get an offing clear of the long lino of low shoals which abound on this part of the coast. The Bhip was brought up at her anchor, but the furious gale and the heavy waves which kept tumbling in from the North Sea no doubt quite overwhelmed the vesHel, and she was driven on tho Tcrschelling sandbank, a dangerous shoal near the entrance to the Zuider Zee, where she speedily began to break up, and of 400 lives on board only forty-four are reported to have been saved.— Lloyd's WeeTcly Newspaper, December 13, 1863.