SHIPPING ITEMS BY THE MAIL.

Colonist, Volume XV, Issue 1501, 13 February 1872, Page 3

SHIPPING ITEMS BY THE MAIL.

Twenty Lives Lost.—The ship Nonpariel, of Newcastle, from Bombay to New York, has been ■wrecked. Out of a crew of 20, only three were saved, after being on the deck-house for sometime. Two passengers were also drowned.

An explosion of coal gas on board the Cunard steamer Samaria, lying at Liverpool on Not. 20th, caused injuries to seven seamen.

A teieseam from St. Petersburg, dated Deo. 80th, says:—" The Eussian steamship Xumt, plying on the Caspian Sea, foundered in a terrible gate. Ail on board—officers, crew, and passengers—were drowned. The steamer had a million roubles in treasure on board, which is a total loss."

A Londok telegram of December 18th, says:— "The French barque Costa Eica was run into last night off the Isle of Wight, by an unknown veßsel, and sunk, carrying down seventeen of her crew. The strange vessel hurried off and made no attempt to assist her."

A combjdeb-ABLb portion of Leith Pier has been destroyed hy fire. The amount of damage is estimated at between £10,000 and £20,000

A Dutch schooner haß been wrecked % off the mouth of the Tyne, and three of the crew perished.

Two deserted vessels were seen on November 18th, off the entrance of the Mersey. It is feared that the vessels had been in collision, and that the crews of both have perished.

A texkgeam from London, dated January 6th, says:—" The ship Dawn, from Liverpool to San Francisco, was wrecked yesterday, off Holyhead. Five of the crew only were saved." A Tueeet Shif in a Stobm.—A Plymouth correspondent writes that on the 27th and 28th of November, the Hotspur encountered a severe gale in the Channel. The vessel put to Bea from Plymouth at dusk for Portland, but had not proceeded many miles when a terrible storm arose. Her Captain, Lord John Hay, persevered, however, in spite of the seas which ■washed the ship from stem to stern, and drenched every one on deck. The ship did not rise to the waves, and continued to dip and plunge so alarmingly that Lord John, who had previously, with others, put on a cork jacket, to be prepared for contingencies, ordered her, when off the Start, to go about and put back to Plymouth, where she arrived at four o'clock in the morning, the Captain having been on the bridge continuously for twelve hours, and no one on beard having turned in for the night.