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Leaving the subject of ancient ships and navigation,...

Origins Of Steamships—ocean-steamers Etcetera

As we have been led, in writing about ships of the n...

Wreck Of The Schooner Betsey On A Reef Of Rocks
The Betsey, a small schooner of about 75 tons burden,...

Loss Of The Aeneas Transport
The AEneas transport sailed with 347 souls on board, ...

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The Capture Of The Great White Whale
That night, in the mid-watch, when the old man--a...

Random Adventures
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A Scene On The Atlantic Ocean

On the morning of the 5th of August, 1833, during a severe gale in
lat. 46, lon. 31, Capt. Dempsey, of the ship Kingston, discovered at a
short distance to leeward, a brig lying on her beam ends, with flag of
distress waving. Capt. D. instantly bore down towards her, when she
proved to be the Albion, of Cork, crowded with passengers. Having
reached within hail of the unfortunate vessel, a heart-rending scene
presented itself. "We beheld," says Capt. Dempsey, "the brig reeling
ere she took the farewell plunge--witnessed the cool intrepidity of
the sailors, even at such a moment--and listened, with feelings the
most harrowing, to the piercing shrieks of the ill-fated passengers.
The crew of the Kingston flung their best boat into the boiling
Atlantic, but every exertion was vain--the angry ocean soon made her
its prey. The Albion went down with every human soul on board."

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