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The opening of the year 1866 will long be memorable for that dismal series of disasters at sea, which it ushered in with a frequency and fatality that were truly appalling. The New Year was scarcely fourteen days old when, from every part of the coast, from north to south, fro...
The opening of the year 1866 will long be memorable for that dismal series of disasters at sea, which it ushered in with a frequency and fatality that were truly appalling. The...
4. CHAPTER II.The _London_ was the property of Messrs. Money Wigram & Co., the eminent shipbrokers at Blackwall, to the extent of fifty-six shares, Messrs. Franklin and Charles Morgan being o...
5. CHAPTER III.It will be long before Britons will hear the name of John Bohun Martin without tears, as they think of his noble heroism amid circumstances sufficiently appalling to rob the bra...
6. CHAPTER IV.Daniel James Draper, a name that will henceforth be as honourably and widely known in England as it was previously in Australia, was born at Wickham, near Fareham in Hampshire,...
7. CHAPTER V.We must pause yet once more before accompanying the voyagers, that we may know as many of them as we possibly can. Many we perhaps shall never know: their very names are already...
8. CHAPTER VI.With her precious freight of human life on board, the _London_ left Plymouth in the very early morning of Saturday, January the 6th. A sailor’s superstition had been respected,...
9. CHAPTER VII.The morning of Thursday, January 11th, at length came to the passengers and crew of the foundering _London_. There had been, we may be sure, no attempts at seeking rest among th...
10. CHAPTER VIII.Why was it, it is time to ask, that there was not a greater clamouring after escape, both among passengers and crew? Why was it, that when all on board knew that the ship was do...
11. CHAPTER IX.At last, but with greater precaution than before, the port cutter was launched, and got safely down. Six men were in her, but as she rose and fell with the fury of the waves, an...
12. CHAPTER X.Was there such a light? It was one of the saddest of calamities, desolating at a stroke many a bright home, and nipping in the bud some of the fondest hopes and purposes. Was th...
13. CHAPTER XI.Nineteen persons had entered the port cutter. These consisted of the second and third engineers, one fireman, the boatswain’s mate, the quartermaster, the carpenter’s mate, the...
14. CHAPTER XII.A few things were remembered in the storm, to which, when we have called the reader’s attention, our task is ended. THE BIBLE was read in the storm. Doubtless the passengers had...