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line on shore, but capsized; the long-boat was launched, and capsized; then 
the life-boat—it also capsized. A passenger then volunteered to swim on 
shore with a rope, which he accomplished; and having succeeded in recover¬ 
ing the life-boat, it was slung on the rope, and used as a cradle for landing 
the passengers. 
Sept. 28. The Annie Jane, from Liverpool, was driven on the Barra 
Maud, one of the Hebrides. Her passengers were emigrants for Canada. 
Out of 450,348 men, women, and children were drowned. When off Barra, 
a breaker struck on her quarter-deck, and the poop-deck sunk, crushing 
200 emigrants. In ten minutes more she went to pieces. About daybreak 
the tide ebbed, leaving the fragments of the unfortunate vessel high and dry, 
when the survivors, 102 in number, walked on shore. 
OcL 18. The Dalhousie, a first-class Jndiaman, was lost off Beachey Head 
in a gale of wind. She foundered in 26 fathoms water, and every soul on 
board was lost excepting one seaman. Her crew was sixty-one in number, 
ami she had twenty first-class passengers on board. Notwithstanding the 
gale, many of these doubtless might have been saved, had any of the ships 
which were near her possessed an efficient life-boat. 
We have such an instance of the preservation of life from shipwreck by 
the Budehaven life-boat, which saved the crew of the sloop Margaret, of 
Bideford, on the 5th of November. 
Nov. 18. The California, emigrant-ship, which left Sligo on the 18th of 
September, was wrecked 150 miles off’ Achill. The passengers and crew left 
the vessel in three boats, two of which arrived at Duoch and Dagert, having 
j'nty persons on board, fifteen of their number having died from exposure 
mil suffering. The third boat was never heard of. The California sprang 
* “®k> and went down immediately. The Anne Eliza, of 100 ton*, of 
"■ Berwick, sailed from Newcastle with coals, about the end of September, 
and has not been heard of since. She is supposed to have gone down in the 
gale about that time. 
The Lady Evelyn, Captain McClellan, from IIong-Kong to San Francisco, 
with a cargo of merchandise, 280 Chinese emigrants, and other passengers, 
eft Amoy on the 16th of July. On the 19th a gale came on, and she struck 
nn a reef known as Richard’s rocks. The long-boat was destroyed by the 
a * of the mainmast. About thirty persons remained in the rigging, and 
got ashore on spars, &c. the following day. All the others were lost. 
Aug. 24. The Meridian, from Gravesend, was wrecked off the island of 
msterdam, in the Indian Ocean. She had twenty-six cabin passengers and 
tty-eight second cabin passengers on board, with a crew nf fourteen. The 
l ap am and two others were lost, but. the rest saved eventually, after enduring 
sufferings. 
Nov. 29. I he packet-ship E. Z., for New York was lost, with her usual crew 
ourteeu passengers. She was struck by a tremendous sea, which carried 
®ay everything on deck, and swept overboard thirteen passengers and nine 
ue crew. Only five of the whole number were saved. 
y U9 f- Hie Marshall, a screw-steamer from Hamburg to Hull, was lost at 
a i U111 emigrants on board, in addition to her crew of eighteen men 
" a va ”? a ^ e cargo- The barque Woodhou.se came in contact with a 
„Xr rofl ^ um Ber, which is supposed to have been the Marshall. Her 
sand iT CrC SeeD ^ boats m-ar Kelu Sea, about five miles from New- 
Moat, and her boats were picked up in the North Sea by a fishing smack. 
A sform, attended with great loss of life, occurred at Tyne- 
w I *’ \“ e schooner Eliza, of Kirkwall, with eight or nine, men on board, 
0s ‘ vessel capsized, and the unfortunate crew clung to the rigging, 
