Fire on the Steamer Vermillion
The Steamer Vermillion, Capt. Brundage, from Detroit, bound to Buffalo, while stopping at the port of Huron, on Lake Erie, on the morning of the 6th inst, took fire from…
Efforts to Save Brig Tanner Fail
PORT ANGELES (Wash.), October 28.—Efforts so far to haul off the brig Tanner, which went ashore last Saturday near Elwha river, six miles west of this city, have proved futile. The vessel so far is not damaged by the seas. Further effort will be made by tugs at high tide tomorrow. The tug captain believes the vessel can be hauled off if more tugs can be procured before the storm comes, otherwise she will prove a total loss.
The news that the old brig Tanner had gone ashore at Port Angeles and probably would prove a total loss was received yesterday in the local shipping world with considerable interest. The Tanner was about the oldest and one of the most picturesque vessels on the Pacific. In 1855, when she was launched at Smithtown, N. Y., she was as tight and saucy a brig as ever flew the stars and stripes. Forty-eight years of sea service, however, transformed the Tanner into a floating sieve in which no sailorman less brave than her skipper and owner, Captain Newhall, would have dared to venture beyond easy reach of a life-saving station.
Wrecking
The coal from the wrecked schooners Florida, and Laura A. Watson in being landed at the village and Old Harbor, under the careful supervision of Mr. Stephen J. Smith, Underwriters’ Agent, who is on hand at all times, attending to business with his usual dilligence and promptness. The men are at work at almost all hours of the day, and sometimes late into the night. The tides have served so early during the past week, that they were obliged to start by three or four o’clock in the morning. There has been no accident beyond the staving of a few boats, although the weather has been very boistrous, and the sea rough.
Wreckage Found
Lyttelton, Sunday. Captain McAlister, of the steamer Toroa, which arrived from Chatham Islands on Saturday night, reports that between August 23 and 26 wreckage was found at Te Whagru and…
Women and Children Castaways on Island
Passengers and Crew of the British Steamer Aeon Are Shipwrecked In Southern Waters.
Victoria, B. C Cable advices from Fanning Island state that the steamer Aeon, which left San Francisco July 6 for Auckland via Apia and was considered overdue, was carried on Christmas Island by the strong currents setting in shore and became a total wreck. The ship’s company, fifty in all, took to the boats and landed at a small settlement, all safe.
There are four women and two children, mostly wives of officers of the United States battleship squadron who took passage to join their husbands in Australia. All are camping on Christmas Island awaiting rescue.
Collision Between the Steamers Black Swan and Luna
The steamer Black Swan, belonging to the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company, left the Queen’s’ Wharf, Melbourne, at 10 o’clock on Tuesday, morning, 16th July, for Launceston, and had at 11 o’clock got nearly abreast of the breakwater running off from Williamstown, when the steamer Luna, coming from Geelong, reached the same spot. The two vessels then came into collision, the Luna striking the starboard bow of the Black Swan stem on, cutting into her to a considerable distance. So great was the force of the shock that it was with difficulty the Luna could, by backing astern, extricate herself, and the Black Swan‘s head was forced from the course she was going right round.
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The Black Swan Still Submerged
The steamship Black Swan is in nearly the same position on the bank as she was when operations were suspended for the day on Friday. On Saturday afternoon one of…
Six Sailormen Rescued After Four Days Adrift
Survivors of Wrecked Schooner Lived Off Flying Fish—Three Others Lost.
By the Associated Press.
EAST HAMPTON, N. Y., September 1.—Six survivors of the four-masted auxiliary schooner Samuel W. Hathaway, wrecked at sea last Tuesday in a hurricane that swept the Atlantic seaboard, were picked up early today by the steamship Southern Cross, bound from Buenos Aires for New York.
The rescued sailormen were found floating atop of the schooner’s skylight, where they had existed for four days, eating such flying fish that they snared and drinking water that they caught in their hats.
Crew Saved, Steamer Will Be a Total Loss
St. Johns, N. F., Aug. 1.—Having lost her position In a dense fog the freight steamer Cyril, from Miramichi, bound for England, ran ashore today at Portuguese Cove, west of…
Collier Nero is Ashore on Block Island
Struck Dangerous Portion of Coast Early This Morning in Fog
Hole Stove in Her Forward Compartment and Portion of Her Crew Taken Off by Life Savers, While Word is Sent to New London for Assistance, and It Is Expected That She Will Be Gotten Off Before Dark This Evening, Though Her Bow Is Filled With Water.
While proceeding up the coast this morning, bound from Newport News to the Bradford coaling station, the United States auxiliary collier Nero, in command of Captain Shurteff, grounded on the rocky coast of Block Island and stove a hole in her forward compartment, which immediately filled with water.
The ships pilot, it is believed, mistook the distance of the fog signal on South eastern light and ran his ship too close to the shore.