SHIPPING CASUALTIES.
The Eliza Hunter, Charleston to London, has foundered. The City of Quebec, London'to Quebec, has been lost at Cape Ray ; crew all drowned. The Hercules (British barque.) Mackenzie, was spoken dismasted on tho 18th April, making fov Bermuda. News from Rangoon dated April 4th states that the Sunbeam (American barque) whilst riding at anchor, sprung a leak, March 30, and sank on the following morning. The G-eorge Annie (American barque) from Liverpool for Boston, April 5, was abandoned at sea, April 29 ; crew saved and landed here by the Roderick Dhu, from Pernarobueo. The brig Atlantic arrived at the Tail of the Bank, G-reenock, and now lies in Albert Hurbcr, Greenock. The Atlantic is a North German vessel, and her arrival is tho first in the Clyde of any ship belonging to that nationality since the termination of the late Franco-Prussian war. A bottle has been picked up at Yarmouth (Norfolk) with a slip of paper in it, on which is written :— ' Midnight, 4th April, brig Borvowdale (of Aberdeen) founcWed off Smalls ; no help near ; boatload J. Macfarlane, chief officer. Advices dated Kingston (Jamaica), April 19, state that H.M.S. Immoitalite, reported by cable from New York as ashore, was aground on a mud bank in the harbor. The efforts made to remove her guns had been unsuccessful, but the rigging had been removed and placed on a lighter.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue XXVI, 26 July 1871, Page 2
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SHIPPING CASUALTIES.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue XXVI, 26 July 1871, Page 2
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