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source - The Cork Examiner, 2 January 1846 -


AN IRISH AND AMERICAN RAILWAY
JUNCTION.
----------------
THE Railway Herald contains a paragraph of great
interest to us in the south in particular, but to
Ireland in general. It announces that the Montreal
papers contain a prospectus of a Company to
establish steam communication from the Port of
Bantry to Portland, in Maine, United States, to be
called The Irish and American Royal Express,
Steam Mail Navigation Company, with a capital of
600,000, to pass weekly from pier to pier in
eight days. The importance of such a project
cannot be too highly estimated. It will have the
effect of rendering Ireland the great transit for the
commerce of England and America. It will open
new sources of wealth and diffuse employment
throughout the masses who now need employment
too much.
We sincerely hope that the project may be
carried out to the letter and spirit.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 9 January 1846 -

We are sorry to hear that the City of Shiraz, Captain Marrat,
which left Whampoa for Bombay on the 14th July last, has been
totally lost in the Mindora sea off the Isle de Negros. Only three
Lascars escaped, who found their way to Manila, from whence
the news has arrived to-day. We have heard no further
particulars. The City of Shiraz was a beautiful new clipper, and
having made her first voyage to China was returning to
Bombay. We believe that competent judges here considered
her greatly overmasted.--Hong Kong Register, Oct. 28

Contributed by Dennis Ahern --The Cork Examiner, 9 January 1846


source - The Cork Examiner, 14 January 1846 -

The registrar of seamen has been directed by the Lords of
the Privy Council for Trade to superintend the operation of the
act 8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 116, passed last session for the
protection of seamen entering on board merchant vessels, and
to exercise a control over the persons licensed under the
provisions of the aforesaid act.--Times.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 21 January 1846 -


FORTUNATE ESCAPES FROM SHIPWRECK--
THE ARKLOW & BLACKWATER BANKS.
During the last week two vessels had hairbreadth
escapes of being wrecked on the banks, when not a
soul would have been saved to tell their fate.
The brig Lady Mary, of Dublin, Scott, master, from
Liverpool to Trinidad, with general cargo, put into
Kingstown leaky, having got on the Arklow Bank in
the thick hazy rainy weather, so dangerous to
navigation at this season. She struck violently and was
miraculously preserved by being lifted with a
tremendous surf over the bank without loss of rudder ;
had she drawn a few feet more water she would never
have come off except in atoms.
The brig James Reid, Alexander Robinson, of
Glasgow, from Liverpool to Marichabo, with general
cargo, struck on the Blackwater Bank at night, and
was equally fortunate in her preservation without
damage, although the master assured the writer, hope
had almost vanished.
This bank is most dangerous, as there must be an
in-draft which carries vessels on it in dark winter
nights, when no lights are seen, and therefore a light
placed here would save many poor fellows and
valuable ships lost every winter.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern


Note that in the following there is mention of a vessel named as the
Laurel. In American papers, as reported on the ISTG website, this vessel
is identified as the Laura. The Irish papers had a more detailed account.
-dja (contributor)

source - The Cork Examiner, 6 February 1846 -

DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS--80 LIVES LOST.
--------------
The losses announced during the last week have been
truly appalling, several American packet ships being
among the number wrecked in crossing the Atlantic,
with the loss of all hands. The first on the list is that of
the Montreal, a fine new ship, 345 tons burthen, a
trader between London and Quebec, which was lost
during a snow storm on the night of the 14th of last
month, on shore near Cape Chest, and not one
belonging to her was left to tell the tale. The wreck,
when discovered, was fast breaking up, her masts were
gone, and her hull had parted in two. On shore the
bodies of the captain, wife, and child were found, the
latter being clasped in its mother's arms. Four other
bodies were afterwards discovered entangled in the
wreck. They have all been buried in one grave. The
vesel was laden with flour and other articles.
The next melancholy affair is that of another packet
ship, supposed to be the Saxon, bound to London, lost
with all hands. The ship, which has a large amount of
insurance on her at Lloyd's, was 367 tons burden, and
left Boston, to where she belonged, on the 13th of last
month, manned with a crew of 20. She was last seen on
the 17th, and her destruction is supposed to have
occurred about the 19th, on a reef of rock called the
Ledges, near Red Head, as her wreck was passed by
the Stamboul, from Smyrna, on the 24th, 25 miles
N.N.W. of St. Genete's Shoal.
Another loss took place on a field of ice, the
particulars of which are thus described :--The brig
Laurel [sic] left Quebec on the 29th of December, with
a cargo of 400 barrels of flour and 28 of butter. On
arriving off Cacona, on the banks of Newfoundland, she
was met by a large field of ice, and every effort to steer
clear of it proved abortive. The ship becoming fixed in
it, she was shortly driven ashore on Green Island, where
she immediately became a wreck. The crew suffered
severely for three days. The barque Universe, of
Boston, was lost under similar circumstances ;
fortunately the crew were saved.
The ship Cambridge, from Liverpool, on the 23d of
December, saw a vessel in distress, which proved to be
the Lord Lynedoch, of London, in a sinking state. They
took off the crew, thirty-two in number, who were in a
dreadful state. The vessel foundered shortly afterwards.
The East India Company have received information of
the total loss of one of the company's war sloops,
named Coote, commanded by Lieutenant J. S. Grieve.
The disaster happened on the 3d November last, on a
reef of rocks opposite Calicut, the vessel at the time
being on an expedition to the Malabar coast.
The brig Merlin, of Newcastle, was totally destroyed
by fire on the 3d instant. She was laden with wine and
fruit, and within twelve hours after leaving Oporto Bar,
she caught fire. The captain and crew were soon forced
to take to the boat, and abandon the vessel. They were
afterwards picked up by a foreign schooner, which
conveyed them to Gibraltar.
On the books are also reported the total loss of the
ship City of Shiras, in the Mindora Sea, with forty
persons drowned ; and also the wreck of the Gustave
Edouard, a French Indiaman, 650 tons burden ; and
another vessel name not exactly known--both attended
with melancholy results.

The schooner Zilli, Barnes master, from St. Ives to
Civetta Vecchia, was totally dismasted off the rock of
Lisbon on the 17th instant. She was taken in tow by the
British schooner Carden, but tremendous gales having
come on from the westward, it was found necessary to
abandon her. The master and crew, five in number,
were brought to Lisbon on the 19th instant, by the
Carden.


LOSS OF THE CHARLES.--The Eastern Province
Herald, Cape Town, of December 10, states that
intelligence had been received from the Bird Islands, by
the Elizabeth Ann, of the loss of the schooner Charles,
of Guernsey, loading guano, on the 15th of November,
in consequence of a severe gale of wind. She had about
140 tons of guano on board. All the lives on board were
saved.


REPORTED LOSS OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP.--LLOYDS. FEB. 2.
--A passenger on board the Sons of Commerce,
Williams, from Hobart Town to London, arrived at
Pernambuco, December 21, reported that a vessel with
emigrants, bound to Port Philip, supposed to be the
Cataraque, from Liverpool, had been totally wrecked
on the Harbinger Reefs, at the west entrance to Bass
Straits, and that 414 persons had been drowned. The
news had reached Hobart Town on the 24th of
September, the day previous to the sailing of the Sons
of Commerce.



VESSEL ON FIRE--LOSS OF LIFE.
About 3 o'clock on Sunday morning it was
discovered that the Jane, a schooner of Alderman
Mulcahy's, and which had been on the Patent Slip for
repairs, was on fire. The fire was subdued, but amongst
those who assisted in this praiseworthy object--indeed,
the second, we understand, who entered the burning
vessel, was Thos. Smith, a youth of 18 years of age,
and an apprentice of Mr. Bernard McNulty. He fell
through the hatchway into the hold, a height of 16 feet,
and his head coming in contact with the chain, he was
killed on the spot. When the surgeon who attended him
removed the scalp over the spot where he received the
wound, the fractured piece of skull dropped out. His
ribs were also broken, and he sustained other severe
injuries. He has been since interred, and his father, who
lives in Dublin, has arrived here in a state of distraction.
Mr. M'Nulty speaks of the young man in the strongest
terms of praise. He had been up reading in the factory at
the time, and was attracted to the spot by the ringing of
the fire bell. It is stated that an old woman who was in
charge of the place made an effort to prevent his going
out, but he pushed her aside, and said, even his mother
should not prevent him. Thus did the noble youth fall a
victim to his generous spirit.--Limerick Reporter.




SHIP NEWS--COVE OF CORK.
Feb. 4--Wind W.S.W.
ARRIVED--Rose Steamer ; Effingham, Driscoll, St.
Johns, N.B., Liverpool, flour and timber, 27 days,
experienced very severe weather, threw 450 barrels of
flour overboard--she has 16 feet water in her hold now.
SAILED--Thomas Handford, Herbert, Cardiff, ballast ;
Teaser, Lawrenson, Limerick, bark ; Isabella, Houng,
do, Indian Corn.
Feb. 5--Wind N.W.
ARRIVED--Madonna, Colwell, St. Domingo, orders,
logwood.
SAILED--Lord Glenelly, Martin, Charleston, ballast ;
Majestic, Smith, Hartlepool, guano ; Flor D'Marn,
Sardinia, Lisbon, butter ; Princess Alice, Cumming,
Gibraltar, coals ; Marg and Rachael, Thomas, Limerick,
do ; Leveret, Robins, do, do ; Little John, Clerke, do,
bark ; Thetis, Davis, Tralee, salt ; Kangaroo, Prosser,
Newport, ballast ; Catherine Anne, Boileu, St. Johns,
N.B., do ; G. Laurance, Scott, Berehaven, do ;
Emigrant, ----, Savanah, do ; Elbe Packet, Crofts,
London, gen. cargo ; Favourite, Silk, do, do,
Margarite, Monkman, Cadiz, ballast ; Isabella, Young,
Limerick, Indian corn ; Harriet, Rose, do. coals ;
Arethusa, Lloyd, do, iron ; Prosperous, Walsh, Gloster,
gen. cargo ; Nais, Clements, Cadiz, coals ; Ocean
Steamer.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 16 February 1846 -

SPANISH WHEAT.--There has been just delivered at this
port a cargo of extremely fine wheat from Cadiz (being
the first that we remember direct from Spain into this
vast emporium of corn). It weighed 64lbs. to the bushel,
and was very dry. The Jane Pope, of Bridport, Captain
Symonds, brought the cargo for Messrs. Grutt,
Helmsing, and Co., and the captain reports that
twenty-three other cargoes were loading at Cadiz when
he left.--Hull Paper.


CAUTION TO SEAMEN.--David Murphy, a seaman lately
belonging to the Brig "Hibernia," of Wexford, William
Neville, Master, was brought before the Mayor, Sir
Benjamin Morris Wall, a few days since, and sentenced
to three weeks imprisonment, the last week at hard
labour, under the 7th and 8th sec., v. 112, for having
deserted from the vessel at St. John's New Brunswick,
in the month of November last. --Waterford Freeman.


EMIGRATION TO NEW BRUNSWICK
----------
Lieutenant Friend presents his compliments to the
Editor of the Cork Examiner, and requests his insertion
of the annexed useful information which is of much
importance, to be generally known to intending
emigrants.
Government Emigration Office,
Cork, Feb. 11, 1846.
[CIRCULAR]
Colonial Land and Emigration Office, 9, Park-st.,
Westminster, Feb. 4, 1846.
SIR--I am directed by the Board to acquaint you that
accounts have been received from New Brunswick,
from which it appears that there is little prospect of
employment for emigrants in that province during the
coming season ; and I am to request that you will take
every opportunity of making this information known to
intending emigrants on your station.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. WALCOTT, Secretary.
Lieut. Friend, R.N., &c., Cork.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern



SHIP NEWS--COVE OF CORK.
--------
March 2 --Wind S.
ARRIVED--Albert Edward, White, China, tea, for
orders, proceeds to Liverpool ; Lydia, Preston,
Moulmein, timber, for orders, leaky ; Pantaloon,
Candler, Alexandria, cotton.
SAILED--None.
March 3--Wind S.
ARRIVED--None.
SAILED--Jupiter and Sabrina steamers.
It blew a tremendous gale all night, and still
continues to blow very strong.


F O R Q U E B E C .
------
To Sail from Cork direct on the 10th April.
THE Favorite well known Passenger Ship
"URANIA," THOS. C. CLERK, Commander. This ship
is such a general favorite that comment on the
qualities of Ship or Captain is needless. She will be,
as usual, Fitted out in the manner most conducive to
the comfort of Passengers, well found, &c.
It may be necessary to remark here, that the
calamitous fires of last season as well as the
Government contracts for Fortifications will create a
great demand for Tradesmen and labourers
throughout the Canadas.
For Passage apply to
GREGORY O'NEILL, 9, Merchant's-Quay

FOR ST. JOHN'S, N.B.
------
To Sail Direct from Cork, on the 1st April.
THE Elegant Fast Sailing Coppered Ship,
"ALARM," J. LEONARD, Commander. This beautiful
Vessel is a well known favorite in the Cape of Good
Hope trade, will be comfortably fitted up for
passengers to St. John, N.B., who will be found in
1 lb. Biscuit, Meal, or Rice, and 3 Quarts of Water
per day during the Voyage. For Passage, which is
moderate, apply to
GREGORY O'NEILL
9, Merchant's-Quay

A heavy gale of wind from the southward, on
Sunday morning, caused the destruction on the coast
of Ireland of three vessels connected with this port.
The American ship Jacob Pennell, Capt. Martin, with
a cargo of cotton, from Mobile for this port, was
driven on shore near Carnsore Point, south coast of
the county of Wexford, and would be a complete
wreck. Part of her cargo would be saved.
--The schooner Iride, from Messina for Liverpool
was wrecked near the same place, and only a trifling
part of her cargo saved. The Prussian brig Gloria,
Captain Loeswitz, from Liverpool, for Stettin, was
stranded about the same time, in Dundrum Bay, near
Newry. She was loaded with palm oil, soda ash, &c.
The palm oil will be all saved ; but the vessel will be a
wreck. It is gratifying to observe, that no lives were
lost.--Liverpool Albion.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern


Source - The Cork Examiner, 4 March 1846 -
DEATHS

On the 2d of Sept. last, at Calcutta, on board the ship Gemini, Richard
Allen Sealy, second son of Richard Sealy, Esq. of Myrtle-hill Terrace,
near this city.

Feb 19, on board the barque Funchal, on her passage to England, from
Sierra Leone, his Excellency, William Ferguson, Esq., Captain-General, and
Governor-in-Chief of that colony and its dependencies.

Contributed by Dennis Ahern


Source - Cork Examiner, Cork, 18 March 1846 -
DEATHS

Drowned, near Cape Finisterre, in consequence of the loss of
the Great Liverpool, Mrs. Archer, wife of Dr. Archer, of her
Majesty's 17th Foot.

Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 8 April 1846 -


SHIP NEWS--COVE OF CORK.
April 7--Wind N.
ARRIVED--Lord Berehaven, Manning, Kilrush, flags ;
Zephyr, Stavely, Barbadoes, sugar ; Argua, Thompson,
Mauritius, do ; Oak, Davidson, Wick, herrings ; Mary,
Nowlan, Baltimore, grain ; Ocean, from Waterford, to
embark with emigrants.
SAILED--Idea, Howell, Baltimore, ballast ; Murrell,
Robins, Neath, do ; Celia, Sutherland, Swansea, do ;
Conner, Jameson, Chepstow, do ; Royal Genete,
Evans, Llannelly, do ; Lively, Bennett, London, general ;
Mary Martha, Larne, Newport, ballast ; Feronia, Gore,
Newport, do ; Agnes, Thompson, Bristol, sugar ;
Sabrina and Vanguard Steamers.
--------------
CROOKHAVEN, APRIL 4 --WIND S.E.
H. M. Steamers Porcupine and Myrmidon put in here
from Cork, bound to Limerick, with Indian meal.



T H A N K S
----------------
ON Thursday, April 2d, a Boat's Crew, consisting of
Michael Collins, Timothy, Edmond, and Patrick Cronin,
each having large families, were taken out of an open
boat, seven leagues off the Seven Heads, by Captain
John Hart, of the Allihies schooner, to whom, and his
Mate, they beg leave to return their most grateful thanks,
for their prompt and humane assistance. A war steamer
passed them so close as to have them distinguish marines
on board, and though those unfortunate beings waved
their hats, and repeatedly hailed her, they left them to
perish in an open and tempestuous sea. A small
subscription is being raised in their neighbourhood
(Ardfield, Clonakilty), having lost their Boat and Fishing
Tackle, their sole means of support.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern


Source - The Cork Examiner, 10 April 1846

Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane has made a valuable discovery at
Formosa, of an extensive vein of rich coal, which the steamers
on the Indian and China coast can be supplied with at two
dollars per ton.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern


Source - The Cork Examiner, 11 May 1846 -

The American barque Almade in 28 days from New
York, with a cargo of Indian corn and meal, consigned
to Messrs. N. and J. Cummins, of this city, on account
of Her Majesty's Government, arrived on Friday in our
harbour.

A large American bark the Mary Norris, Capt. Jones
arrived yesterday from Norfolk, Virginia State having on
board over 27,000 bushels of Indian Corn. The cargo is
consigned to Mr. John Cave, and is intended for the
Cork market.

Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 29 May 1846 -

DINGLE, MAY, 26.--Arrived this morning, the Hamilton,
Revenue cutter, with a supply of Indian meal.

HARWITH, MAY, 20.--The Alert, Eskdale, of Whithby,
from Oporto for London, at ten o'clock last night got on
the Long Sand, and at six this morning she upset, when
the master and four seamen took to the boat, and were,
with one passenger, who was picked up on a spar,
brought in here by the smack William and Elizabeth, of
Dartmouth. One seaman and eight passengers were
drowned. Another wreck took place on the Gunkeet,
situate a few miles from the sands, where the Alert
capsized, and it is sadly feared that every soul belonging
to her met with a watery grave. The vessel was
apparently of Danish build and was laden with oats. At
daybreak this morning she was seen by some fishermen
beating over the sand. They took her in tow, and in
attempting to get her clear she broke up and became a
complete wreck.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 3 June 1846 -


SHIPWRECK--MELANCHOLY LOSS OF ONE
HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN LIVES.
------------
The New York Papers contain the following :--On the
1st of May the Swedish sloop of war Charles Krona,
Captain E. G., of Klint, sailed from Havannah for Sweden,
with a crew, consisting of 132 men, and when off
Matanzas, having been two days and three nights out, was
caught in a squall, which turned the vessel bottom upwards,
consigning to a watery grave one hundred and fifteen souls!
The vessel immediately sunk. Seventeen of the crew, who
saved themselves by clinging to spars of the vessel, were
picked up by a New Orleans vessel, and brought into
New York.



FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE STEAMER FINN
M'COULL.--An accident took place on board the
steamer Finn M'Coull, at two o'clock in the afternoon
of Wednesday last, when leaving Garlieston Quay, at
which place she had called, on her voyage from
Wigtown to this port. The boiler gave way in the
starboard coal bunker, and from the water and steam
thus escaping, William Esplin, first engineer, James
Hughes, and James Braidie, firemen, were so severely
scalded as to occasion their death ; James Grimes and
Christopher Collie, also firemen, are in a dangerous
state. None of the passengers or sailors have received
any injury. The accident is supposed to have
originated by an over pressure of steam having been
kept up, and, probably, want of attention to the
valves. The steamer (with the exception of the boiler)
has not sustained damage.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 13 July 1846 -

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN.
------------------
OUR Liverpool papers due this morning have not reached
us. We have a private letter announcing that the Great
Western was off the port. The Steamer had telegraphed
important intelligence regarding the oregon question, and
"very bad news" from Mexico. We wait with anxiety the
arrival of more full information.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 20 July 1846 -

BIRTHS.
On the 8th inst., at her house, Thomond-square, the
lady of Wm. Hawksley, Esq., Captain of the
screw-steamer Prometheus, of a daughter.
Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 10 July 1846 -

WEDNESDAY MORNING.--The Alban steamer arrived
at Killorglin yesterday evening, with meal for the
Killarney Relief Committee.

Contributed by Dennis Ahern


Source - The Cork Examiner, 17 August 1846 -

Among the advantages of steam-boat communication in the
United States, enumerated by the New York Herald, we find it
stated that "you may travel from New Orleans to St. Louis, a
distance of twelve hundred miles, for twelve dollars, meals,
berths, &c. included. This price (one cent, a-mile, with three
meals a day) is, we believe, the cheapest travelling in the world."


STEAM TO RIO.--A regular line of steam communication
between England and the Brazilian empire is about to be
opened, by the sailing of the Antelope from Liverpool for Rio.
She sails on the 10th September.--Liverpool Times.


MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN CANADA.--The left wing
of the 93rd Highlanders left for Quebec, on
Saturday evening, at six o'clock, under the
command of Major Smyth.
The 2d battalion 60th Rifles arrived at Montreal
the same day, and will remain until relieved by the
reserved 2d battalion of the Rifles.
A detachment of the 46th Regiment occupies the
barracks at St. John's, until relieved by the 77th
Regiment from Halifax, N.S.
The 89th Regiment and the right wing of the
14th regiment proceeded to Halifax, N.S. in the
Bellisle troop ship, which will probably sail from
Quebec, on Tuesday or Wednesday.


SUPPOSED MUTINY.--For several weeks, much
anxiety has prevailed regarding the fate of the
crew and passengers (the latter four in number) of
the Hannah, belonging to Sydney, the wreck of
which had been discovered on the coast eastward
of North Cape, under circumstances which have
caused considerable suspicion.--By the last
accounts received, it appears the Hannah left Port
Nicholson for Sydney, in the early part of January
last, having on board a very valuable cargo, also
600 soveriegns. She was a vessel of 200 tons
burden, and her crew amounted to 15 seamen.
From the period of her sailing, nothing was heard
of her until the discovery of the wreck twelve miles
from North Cape. Five bodies, in a shockingly
decomposed state, were found on deck, one of
which was that of a female, with an arm and a leg
broken. The stern board of the wreck had been
knocked off, evidently in order to prevent the
vessel being recognised. Part of the cargo had
been saved, consisting of 80 casks of oil ; but the
boxes containing the gold were gone. The opinion
of Sydney was, that a mutiny had broken out
among the crew ; and after disposing of many of
the men, they ran the vessel on shore and took the
boats, taking with them the sovereigns. The
authorities at Auckland have despatched a vessel
in search of the supposed offenders.

Contributed by Dennis Ahern


BALLINA CHRONICLE
Ballina, Mayo, Ireland
Wednesday, August 23, 1849

STEAM TO LIVERPOOL
THE MAGNIFICENT NEW IRON STEAM SHIP
"SHAMROCK"
Is intended to Sail as under:-
Sligo to Liverpool.
SATURDAY, - 18th August - 5 Morning.
FRIDAY, - - - 24th August - 7 Morning.
Liverpool to Sligo
TUESDAY, - - 21st August - 12 Noon.
WEDNESDAY - 29th August - 7 Morning.
Goods and stock to be alongside Two Hours before the time of Sailing.
FARES TO LIVERPOOL.
Cabin (including Steward's Fees) £1; Second Cabin, 12s; Steerage, 8s.
Apply to T. Martin, and Burns & Co., Water-street, Liverpool;
T. Cameron & Co.; Jamaica-street, Glasgow; J. Rankin & Co. Greenock; or to
JAMES HARPER, Sligo.
Sligo, 11th August, 1849.


Contributed by Cathy Joynt Labath


source - The Cork Examiner, 2 October 1846 -


COLLISION AND LOSS OF LIFE IN THE
IRISH CHANNEL.

STRANRAER, SATURDAY.--Yesterday afternoon intelligence
reached this place of a dreadful collision occurring in the
Irish channel, about ten miles off Troy Islands, on the night
of the 25th instant, by which a large vessel ran into and
foundered a schooner, named the John Lloyd, belonging to
Belfast. The particulars are reported to be as follows:--On
the night in question the schooner, which was heavily laden,
was beating up the north channel for the Clyde, from
Archangel, when about 12 o'clock a large vessel was
observed making downwards. Whether the ordinary
look-out was kept on board the vessels is not known, but it
appears the position of the schooner was not seen until she
was close under her bows, and ere she could be brought
round the collision took place. The schooner was struck
nearly amidships, and was cut down to the water's edge,
her foremast and mizenmast going over at the same
moment. After they had parted the ill-fated vessel was
found to be sinking, and in a few minutes she went down in
deep water. Three only of the crew were saved, the
remainder, who, it is supposed, were asleep in their berths,
were either crushed to death or drowned in their
hammocks. The survivors escaped in the boat, which
fortunately had been clear of the wreck. The crew of the
ship, which has been ascertained to be the Lord Dufflyn, of
Belfast, were for some time after the collision fearful that
she also sustained serious damage ; and before they had
ascertained the extent of injury, the wind and the tide had
carried her some distance from the spot of the accident,
which will account for their not rendering assistance to the
schooner. The ship put back to Belfast to make good her
damage ere she could resume her voyage to New Orleans.
The survivors of the schooner remained in the boat for
twelve hours, and being perceived by the Julia, of
Greenock, from Calcutta, they were taken on board. The
poor fellows were much distressed, and the treatment they
met with from the crew of the Julia is spoken of in the
highest terms. They were landed at Greenock on
Wednesday, and being furnished with the necessary means,
were forwarded to their respective homes.


CANAL TO THE SHANNON--The Rev. Nicholas Power
and Mr. P. Meara, chairman of the Nenagh Town
Commissioners, have waited as a deputation on the Lord
Lieutenant, to induce the government to make a Canal
from Nenagh to the Shannon, and we are glad to say
with perfect success.
The schooner Lyra, a Liverpool trader (Mr. Orr), with
wheat to Mr. Comerford of Galway, is wrecked on the
coast of Spiddal.
The packet-ship Shenandoah, from Philadelphia, brings
back upwards of one hundred returning emigrants.

Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 12 October 1846 -


IMPORTANT SHIP NEWS.
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FALMOUTH, OCT. 8.--The Rattler Steamer, Carter,
from Cork, for London, put in here to-day, full of water,
having sprung a leak on the 7th inst., 30 miles off Cork ;
will be laid on the ground.--Passengers were taken off
in the Carrack Roads.
The Eliza, of Waterford, was lost at sea on the 19th
ult. ; part of crew saved by the Lord Sandon, from
Quebec to Liverpool.
The Rose Steamer, for Bristol, came to anchor outside
the spit buoy in consequence of the heavy sea running in
the chaps of the harbour, and remains.
The John S. Dewolf, Captain Read, from St. Johns,
N.B., cargo of timber and deals for orders ; 20th Sept.
fell in with a heavy gale from S. W. to N. W., lost main
and foremast, boats, bulwarks, and deck load, and Mr.
Allen, mate, in lat. 42 48 N., lon. 45 West.
It has been blowing a dreadful gale all dayand
continues with every appearance of a bad night, the
Captain of the Rose, however, has taken the wisest plan
to remain in the harbour for the present.
The Britannia Steamer, Hewitt, from Boston, at
Liverpool, sailed 16th, and from Halifax 18th Sept. On
the 23d in lat. 48, lon. 44, fell in with the H. M. Sinnott,
Connor, from Tralee to Quebec, dismasted, and on her
beam ends, and with nine feet water in her hold.
WATERFORD, PASSAGE, OCT. 5.--The Victoria, Capt.
Clements, brought in 23 persons, being part of the crew
and passengers of the barque Apollo, Captain Walker,
of and from Dundee, for Quebec, which vessel, with the
exception of a boy named Genete Walker, who was
lost.
PASSAGE, OCT. 6.--Captain Stagg, of the Liverpool,
reports that yesterday 30 miles off the Lands End of
England, he saw a brig, with her colours flying, go down,
and that he immediately changed his course and bore
down towards the spot, and saw a boat with eight
persons in it, but before he could reach her she went
down.


D I S A S T E R S A T S E A .
----------------
KINGSTOWN, OCT. 9.--Report of the brig Torrens, put
back to Dublin dismasted, bound from Wexford to
Quebec ; Met with heavy gales, 19th, 20th and 21st ult.
On the 20th she was struck by a heavy sea which nearly
cleared the decks, and carried away wheel ; cut away
mainmast to get her before the wind and prevent her
foundering. On the 22d, the gale having partly subsided,
spoke the ship Victoria, of and from Belfast, bound to
Quebec, dismasted, and on beam ends, and rudder gone
; lay by her until next day ; in the interim the crew was
taken out by brig Trafalgar, of Maryport, bound to
Quebec ; on the 23d boarded the Victoria, and took
from her sails and provisions which enabled us to
proceed for the nearest port. Same day boarded the brig
Violet, of Belfast, from Liverpool, with decks swept, loss
of sails and jib-boom ; she had on board seventeen of
the crew of the ship Emerald, of and from St. John's. On
the 24th spoke the brig Belize, of Dundee, for Quebec ;
had on board the crew of the brig Cushlamachree ; same
day saw a large ship dismasted, steering to the eastward.
Sept, 30, in lat. 49.7 N, long. 22,31 W ; at 10 p.m.,
passed close to wind-ward of a large vessel, on fire,
burned in parts nearly to the water's edge, and from the
appearance of her sharp bows, short bowsprit, two tier
of stern windows, and irons amid-ships on both sides,
still standing, Captain Boache is of opinion that she must
have been a large steamer.--Saunders.

Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 20 November 1846 -


L O N D O N P O L I C E .
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LAMBETH.--On Saturday Maria Louisa Cook, a young
woman dressed as a sailor boy, was placed at the bar before
Mr. Norton, on a charge of attempting to destroy herself by
taking a quantity of laudanum.
John Constable, 43 L, stated that, while on duty on that
day about 10 o'clock, a person entered the station- house,
and requested his attendance at a coffee-house in the
Waterloo-road, as a young sailor had just taken a quantity of
poison there. He, in consequence, hastened to the house,
and, finding the prisoner in a very drowsy state, with her
head upon the table, and also two bottles by her side, from
which laudanum had just been taken, he went in search of a
doctor to attend her. Witness, on the recommendation of Dr.
Brooks, took her to Gay's Hospital, when the stomach pump
was used, and, being sufficiently recovered from the effects
of the poison, he took her back to the station-house, and had
the charge of attempting to destroy herself entered on the
sheet. From the statement made by the prisoner to him (the
constable) it appeared that she was the daughter of a
veterinary surgeon, residing at Chulton, in the county of
Somerset ; but, having become attached to a private in the
37th Regiment of Foot, she had left her home, and had
latterly lived at Chatham, where her lover was quartered.
The regiment had lately been ordered on foreign service, and
was to embark on Monday or Tuesday next for the island of
Ceylon, and the prisoner finding that her lover was to
proceed there by a vessel lying in the West India Dock, sold
her woman's apparel at a great sacrifice, and purchased the
sailor's suit she then had on. She next proceeded to the
Mariners' Register-office, and procured the necessary ticket,
wherein she described herself as David Cook, born at
Bristol, in the county of Glocester, Aug. 3, 1830, "capability
boy," and with this she made her way to the West India
Dock, and presented herself to the captain, whom she
requested to employ her as cabin- boy. The captain told her
that he had already engaged with and shipped his necessary
number of hands ; and being thus frustrated in all her hopes
of being able to accompany the object of her affection, she
had made up her mind to commit suicide. Her first intention
was to throw herself from off one of the bridges, and she
would have done so but that a sailor boy, whom she had
brought with her from Chatham, had told her that there were
such a number of crafts passing up and down the river
Thames, that the probabilities were that she would drop into
one of them, break some of her bones, and die a lingering
death. She then made up her mind to take poison, and had
procured small quantities of laudanum at different shops, and
those she had taken. At the coffee- house a letter had been
written by the prisoner just before she had taken the poison.
Mr. Norton here read the letter in question, and which was
as follows :--
"Dear Thomas--I have overstepped the bonds of prudence and
modesty, in hopes of being able to reach Ceylon with you. I have put
on boy's apparel, and come to this sink of iniquity, London, to enter
the Minerva as a boy, but when I got here the captain had shipped
all his hands. I have tried to get on board several other vessels, but
cannot on account of not being able to find money enough to
procure sufficient clothes to go to sea with. I have sold all my own to
get what I have on, and have no money to get others. I have no
friends here--no place to go to-- I cannot blame any person but
myself. Think of me no more, Thomas, as it is useless ; you will never
see or hear from me again. Remember me to Harriet and Charles.
Don't make yourself at all uneasy about me. I have no more to say,
but remain yours till death.
London, Nov. 14. M. R. Cook."
Charles White said he was in the coffee-house in the
Waterloo-road at the time, and perceived a very
extraordinary smell, which he had no doubt was laudanum ;
he looked round the place, and the young sailor, as he
supposed him to be, had his head on the table, and was
apparently in a state of stupor. He awoke him, or rather her,
and asked if she had taken anything, and she replied that she
had swallowed some laudanum with her coffee.
Constable 43 said that the prisoner had acknowledged to
him that she was in such a state of exhaustion at the time she
took the poison that she could hardly keep up her head, the
fear of disclosure of her sex preventing her from taking off
her clothes from the moment she put them on. One night she
slept in the hold of a vessel in the dock, and on Friday night
at the coffee-house she sat in a chair all night, while her
companion, a sailor boy, had slipped off and went to bed.
She had also been afraid of washing her hands or face, but
allowed them to be black and dirty, lest the fairness of her
skin should disclose her sex.
In reply to the questions of the magistrate the prisoner,
who kept her face concealed from the gaze of the crowd in
the court by placing her hands over it, said that she had
become acquainted with the soldier about three years ago,
when he belonged to a recruiting party at Bristol, and then
conceived a strong attachement for him. She did not then
leave her home with him, but about six months ago, finding
that the regiment was quartered at Newport, in Wales, she
left home and joined him there. She next accompanied him to
Chatham, where she took a lodging, and he was quartered in
Brompton barracks. She declared it was her intention to
have destroyed herself, and only regretted that she had been
prevented, and added that it was impossible to endure
greater torture than those which she had experienced for the
last three days.
She was remanded for a week to give time to
communicate with her friends.



THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP.
Mr. Billenton, civil engineer, who received
instructions to survey this ship, and report on the
geological strata of the bay, the tidal flows, her
position, and the mode of floating her, has published
the following report :--
"She is stranded on the sands on the north side of
Dundrum Bay, between two reefs of rocks, which
extend a considerable distance into the sea, about
1,000 yards asunder. Her position is north-west,
with her stern to the sea, and about 130 yards above
low water, and her stern 300 yards from shore.
"The sands average from one foot to three feet
deep, upon blue gravel from nine inches to twenty
inches thick, resting on blue mountain limestone
rock, on which the hull now rides. The bay is
frequently very rough, and the vessel difficult to
board during high tides. The sands vary very little in
this part of the bay, and whatever accumulation
takes place from the southerly winds is removed
when the winds blow easterly, which increases the
facility of floating her.
"On the starboard side the plates have been
bulged, and the rivets sprung to a considerable
extent, which admit freely the flowing and ebbing of
the tide ; and several holes about 1 inch diameter
have been drilled through the bottom in order to
prevent her from lifting or beating.
"At spring tides there are from sixteen to
seventeen feet of water in her hold, and at low water
she is left dry, with an exception of a small quantity
of water in the dock she has naturally formed for
herself in the sand and gravel, and about two feet in
her bottom, and she oscillates freely during high
tides. She appears much sprung and strained, has
lost her rudder, and the screw propellor is slightly
damaged. The cylinders, pumps, &c., and part of
the driving gear, are covered at high tide, and
exposed to the action of the salt water. Her weight is
about 1600 tons (without masts, &c.), and the
accumulation of wreck about 200 tons more.
"The sands on the beach at low water are very
flat, with an inclination towards the sea of about 1 in
750, and the coast barren of meterials, except
limestone.
"From the practical survey I have taken (he
concludes) I am fully convinced that the difficult task
of floating her can be accomplished, and that
respectable and experienced contractors may be
found who will undertake to float her at a moderate
cost."--Colonial Gazette.

Contributed by Dennis Ahern


source - The Cork Examiner, 23 November 1846 -


The Univers announces that five Catholic
missionaries embarked at Nantes on the 7th inst.,
for Singapore.

A good deal of property lost in the Hebe schooner
of this port from London, wrecked at the Maharees,
coast of Kerry, has got into the hands of the country
people of that district. Among other things the plate
chest of Lord Bloomfield, which that gentleman was
getting home from London ; the chest has been
found, but emptied of its valuable contents. No clue
could at first be found to the discovery of this
property, but the wreckers are fighting about its
distribution ; and intelligence is oozing out likely to
lead to the discovery of the greater part of the noble
lord's plate, and of other valuable articles besides.
Mr. J. Cronin, port collector of Tralee, has issued an
order to all persons continuing to hold any of the
vessel's cargo.--Limerick Chronicle.


SUBMARINE EXPLOSIONS IN THE THAMES.--The
Harbour-master, Captain Fisher, has within the last
few days, completed the removal of three sunken
wrecks which have for some considerable time
greatly impeded the navigation of the river in the
Lower Hope. Their removal was effected by
submarine explosions, of various charges, averaging
from 50 to 500 lbs., fired by means of a galvanic
battery. In the case of the larger explosion, a
remarkable incident occurred at the moment of firing.
An immense shoal of fish was passing the spot, and
nearly the whole of them were blown out of the water
to the extent of nearly 30 feet, the circumstance being
followed by the raising of a huge column of water to
about as great an altitude, which emitted a large
portion of the destroyed wreck as if from the force of
a volcano. The river, from London-bridge to the
Nore, is now perfectly free of all obstruction. The
dangerous shoal of hard shingle off Limehouse-reach,
which stopped the navigation of vessels of a large
draught at low water, has recently been entirely
removed by the same means. The depth of water has
been increased from four to seventeen feet at low
water.--London Paper.

Contributed by Dennis Ahern


Source - The Cork Examiner, 4 December 1846 -


SHIP NEWS--COVE OF CORK.
--------
Dec. 2.--Wind N.N.W.
ARRIVED--Betsey, Lloyd, Galway, kelp ; Joseph,
Flavin, Gloucester, salt ; Anna, Hunter, Alexandria,
beans, orders ; Orion, Williams, Newport ; Rose
Steamer ; Margaret, Alert, Robt. Law, Nonpariel,
Jessie--coals.
SAILED--Caroline Leseur, Carey, Waterford, maize ;
Spee, ----, Newport, ballast ; Xerazano, Evans,
Cardiff, do ; Queen, Mitchel, Liverpool, maize ; J. H.
Yates, Watson, Cardiff, ballast ; Judge Thompson,
Capon, Vienna, do ; Pomona, Briggs, Galway, maize ;
Vislon, Harvey, Liverpool, general ; Metoka, M'Larne,
New York, emigrants.
Dec. 3--Wind N.N.E.
ARRIVED--Nimrod Steamer ; H.M. Steamer Lucifer.
SAILED--Ocean, Stafford, Limerick, maize ; Jane,
Crowley, Bristol, grain ; Ida, Harvey, Llanelly, ballast ;
Unicorn, Nicholson, Liverpool, timber.
Put Back--Scio, for Newry--Sally, for Newport
--Herbert, for Newport.
The Aeneas floated off the beach near Atkinson's
Quay, where she lay since the gale of the 20th ult.
--------------
CROOKHAVEN, NOVEMBER 29--WIND E.N.E.
Put in--John St. Barbe, of London, Davis, from
Limerick to London with oats ; Alfred and James, of
Milford, Evans, from Kilrush to Glasgow, oats ; Portia,
of Glasgow, M'Lea, from Tarbert to Glasgow, do ;
Wilfrid, of Workington, Boyd, from Tralee to
Liverpool, oats, two days out ; Acorn, of Cardigan,
Jones, from Limerick to Glasgow, oats, ten days out ;
Magnes, of London, Douglas, from Galway to Troon,
ballast, three days out ; Thetis, of Cardigan, Davis, from
Llanelly, bound to Tralee.



DISASTERS AT SEA.
(From the Monmouthshire Merlin.)
By the kindness of Capt. Sutton of the Girl I love, we
have learnt that on his passage from Cork to Newport,
on Sunday last, he saw, 20 miles S. E. by S. of Cork,
the deck of a vessel waterlogged and dismasted, with
spars floating around her, and doubtless all hands lost.
The barque Kangaroo, of Cork, arrived here on
Thursday morning, and when near her berth, a man was
knocked into the river by the spanker boom, and was
drowned. The body has not been found.
Capt. Sutton, of the Robert Lawe, reports that when
30 miles S.E. by S., from Cork, to this port, he saw the
smack Charlotte, of Guernsey, copper-bottomed, quite
a wreck, and dismasted.
Several vessels which left Cork on Thursday week,
and should have arrived on Sunday last, not having
arrived in this port up to yesterday, are thought to
be lost.



INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT
----------------
The Insolvent Debtors' Court was opened on
yesterday by Mr. Commissioner Farrell.
John Gallaher, Insolvent
Mr. Galwey opposed the discharge of the insolvent, an
[sic] shipwright, formerly living at Union Hall, on behalf of
a person named John Ryan, a butcher, with whom he
incurred a debt of s. for meat. It was stated that he
was capable of earning s. a week, in addition to
which he received from his son, a seaman, a monthly
remittance of 0s. Out of these means he was enabled
to build a comfortable house, while his debts amounted
only to or
The case was ordered to stand over to the next
commission.

Contributed by Dennis Ahern


Source - The Cork Examiner, 21 December 1846 -

LOSS OF THE ATLANTIC
A frightful steam boat disaster had taken place on the
coast near Boston, the steamer Atlantic having struck at
midnight on the 26th on a reef near Fisher's Island. The
boiler, in the first instance, burst. Soon after the steamer
left Boston the storm then arose which compelled the
steam-ship Great Western to anchor off Staten Island,
and at 4 o'clock on the following morning the Atlantic
struck and broke in two. Numbers were crushed in the
cabins amidst the falling timbers, 45 were drowned and
killed, and about 30 escaped. The sole relic of the ill-
fated vessel on the following day was on upright beam,
upon which hung a bell tolled by the sea. An English
family named Walton were among the lost.



AUSTRIAN JUSTICE.--It will be remembered that at the
last Waterford assizes two Austro-Italians, belonging to
the Anna of Trieste were acquited of the murder of
Keane, the carman, the jury agreeing that it was in
self-defence the homicide was committed. It was believed
that one of the Austrians, the small man, in particular,
gave the fatal stab to Keane. The men returned to Italy,
but not by the ship Anna, as she sailed previously to their
liberation. On the arrival of the two sailors in Trieste they
were imprisoned for the murder of the Irishman, and
brought to trial. The small man was found guilty, and
sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment.--Waterford Chronicle

Contributed by Dennis Ahern




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